The Denial of Death - Softcover

Becker, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0285638971 ISBN 13: 9780285638976

Verlag: Souvenir Press, 2011

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Críticas:

An original, creative contribution to a synthesis of this generation's extensive explorations in psychology and theology. (Boston Herald)

One of those rare masterpieces that will stimulate your thoughts, your intellectual curiosity, and last but not least, your soul. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author, On Death and Dying)

A brave work of electrifying intelligence and passion, optimistic and revolutionary, destined to endure. (New York Times Book Review)

Concerns the 'universality of the fear of death'... Its approach is more philosophical than psychologically or medically empirical. (Theology)

Meditating on death and its influence on our culture... that the fear of death is the single motivating fact of human endeavour and that all art and philosophy come from trying to deal with obsolescence. (The Catholic Herald)

One of the few great books of the 20th or any other century. (Albuquerque Journal Book Review)

It is hard to overestimate the importance of this book: Becker succeeds brilliantly in what he sets out to do, and the effort was necessary. (The Chicago Sun-Times)

Reseña del editor:

Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize and the culmination of Ernest Becker's life's work, The Denial of Death is one of the twentieth-century's great works. In it Ernest Becker passionately seeks to understand the basis of human existence. Taking the fundamental fact of existence as man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality, Becker sheds new light on humanity and the meaning of life itself.

Becker views human civilisation and achievement as an attempt to transcend a sense of mortality. Mankind seeks heroic acts to become part of something eternal; even though the physical body will die one day, life can still have meaning and a greater significance. In the modern world much conflict between religions, nations and ideologies are the result of contradictory 'immortality projects' but Becker sees these as false and looks for alternative immortality projects that can restore the heroic sense, as well as bringing about a better world.

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• Verlag: Souvenir Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0285638971
• ISBN 13: 9780285638976
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336