Explores human behavior through the lenses of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and psychiatry.
Ernest Becker Book order
September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974
Ernest Becker was a renowned cultural anthropologist and scientific thinker who explored interdisciplinary subjects. His work delved deeply into the psychological and philosophical aspects of human existence, particularly how individuals grapple with the awareness of their own mortality. Becker proposed that our character structures and even our civilizations are largely shaped by the death-denial mechanisms that enable us to function. However, this need to deny death, he argued, inevitably leads to evil by alienating us from genuine self-knowledge and fostering conflict. Drawing on thinkers like Kierkegaard, Freud, and Otto Rank, his ideas offered a revolutionary perspective on the human psyche and society.
- 2010
- 1995
The Truth About the Truth
De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Includes essays and excerpts from the works of prominent modern thinkers such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Isaiah Berlin among others.
- 1985
Escape from Evil
- 188 pages
- 7 hours of reading
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world."A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times." —Anais Nin"An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light." —Newsweek
- 1972
Addresses the issue of mortality discussing how humans universally share a fear of death and examines the theories of leading thinkers on this subject including Freud, Rank, and Kierkegaard
