Description
This landmark work in existential psychology examines how the awareness of mortality shapes human behavior, belief, and culture. It argues that much of what people do—from pursuing achievement and status to embracing religious or ideological worldviews—reflects an effort to deny death and secure a sense of lasting meaning. Drawing on psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, the book explores the tension between our physical vulnerability and our desire for significance, heroism, and transcendence. Provocative and deeply influential, it offers a searching account of the fears that underlie both individual identity and collective life.
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Blackstone Audiobooks
Published Jan 1, 2005
ISBN: 9780786176861
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First Published
1973
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.