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Title: The DENIAL OF DEATH by Ernest Becker, Sam Keen ISBN: 0-684-83240-2 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 08 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.87 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: most important book i've ever read
Comment: I think all the reviews say this but I will reiterate it again: this book changed my life. It forced to ponder every important question in life, for me and for all of mankind, in new, difficult yet enlightening ways. I think it's completely undervalued and underrated by academia (at least at the school I teach at) not only as psychological text, but as a philosophical and spiritual text as well. It's writing is both honest and impassioned, written with the ardous care of a man who has forced himself to face life and death in a magnanimous and sober way. This is easily my favorite book.
Rating: 5
Summary: ...
Comment: I ve read lots of books i dont understand and quite a few wich were "cool" to Read (neitche) this is probably the only book i have read wich is almost always in my mind and in my observations on life.
This is the only book wich can save humanity from destruction read it and prepare for the emptiness. This book is not cool or trendy in any way these are the last words of a dying man.
I said that because everyone listens to you when they know youre dying instead of just waiting for there turn to speak.
thanks for the book mike trying to get in touch with you to get it back to you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Helps you be human
Comment: Book Review / The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Nearly 60 reviews have already been posted on this book, many delving into the ins and outs of the psychological theories Becker proposes. So, I simply want to report the impact this book had on me.
Over decades of reading, I have sought authors who will admit the truth. Becker does.
To find a book that insightfully examines -- with a clear, steady gaze -- the profoundest fundamentals of human existence is quite rare. I have read thousands of books in my life, and Becker's is one of the few that genuinely qualifies. He dares go where many fear to tread. But, death and our denial of it, he establishes, is at the core of human existence and a root force shaping both human personality and human society. I imagine it is impossible to understand life without grasping this. Becker brilliantly analyzes why and how we avoid acknowledging this fact at all costs.
If you have the courage to look at the core of things; to examine your own denial of death and how it has -- and currently is -- shaping your life; then this book is for you. It is for readers who find the truth fundamentally more liberating, than intimidating.
Becker helped me become more honestly human. He also helped me feel less weird, ( i.e. neurotic) by acknowledging that much neurosis stems from being constantly and painfully aware of the actual facts of existence.
Despite the "heavy" topic, Becker's overall writing style is lucid, accessible, even engaging, and without posturing. Only occasional sections lapse into rather turgid debate of psychological theory.
If you want a book that calmly stares you straight in the face, while dissecting what really matters; if you are looking for a book that can help ground you in the center of reality, here it is.
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Title: Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker ISBN: 0029024501 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: April, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEANING by Ernest Becker ISBN: 0029021901 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1971 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development by Otto Rank, Charles Francis Atkinson, Anais Nin ISBN: 0393305740 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman Oliver Brown, Christopher Lasch ISBN: 0819561444 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ari`Es, Philippe Aries, Patricia M. Ranum ISBN: 0801817625 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1975 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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