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Books by Ernest Becker mentioned on podcasts
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“And it reminds me of a great passage from a book that will, I think, I'll mention once or twice in this Ernest Becker's Denial of Death, he has a section where the French writer Alfonso Daudet when he was young, went to a funeral”
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Birth and Death of Meaning
Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker is an exploration of human psychology and culture framed primarily through an evolutionary and psychoanalytic lens.
Recommended“i would say uh that ernest becker's the denial of death or another book called the birth and death of meaning are where we got our ideas from uh but a lot of folks uh find that to be difficult”
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escape from evil
Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker is a profound philosophical and anthropological work that examines how human cultures, economic systems, and historical atrocities are driven by a universal terror of death and a quest for immortality.
Discussed“so that's point number one i point number two in a book called escape from evil which is after the denial of death uh becker says here's the other problem”
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The Ernest Becker Reader
The Ernest Becker Reader edited by Daniel Liechty is a comprehensive collection of writings by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural anthropologist and social theorist Ernest Becker.
Recommended“there's a great book called the worm and the whole solomon something solomon i read this book”
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