The Greatest Books: Written by Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker

Description: Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer. He is noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
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The best books of all time by Ernest Becker

892 . The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

The basic premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotiona...

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