📚 12 Books mentioned in "Does A Fear Of Death Drive Everything We Do? | Sheldon Solomon | Modern Wisdom Podcast 240" of Modern Wisdom

uh there's a book by a famous guy he's a primatologist michael tomasello at the max planck institute in germany it's called becoming human and i think that a human being raised under those conditions would be pretty much like a great ape

The speaker mentions Michael Tomasello and his book to support an argument about the development of human consciousness and self-awareness.

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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

The speaker recommends Ernest Becker's books as foundational texts for the ideas discussed, noting they can be challenging.

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nicholas humphrey who's a british guy he wrote a book called consciousness regained i think in the 1980s and um i favor his view which is that consciousness may have evolved um in social settings

The speaker mentions Nicholas Humphrey and his book, expressing support for his theory on the social evolution of consciousness.

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this long-standing problem is robert j lifton a psycho historian who i'm fond of in a book called destroying the world to save it he's like wow we may be the first form of life to be responsible for our own extinction because of our inability to get along with folks who are different than ourselves

The speaker references Robert Jay Lifton and his book when discussing humanity's potential for self-destruction due to conflict.

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in fact uh who's it john locke in his second treatise on government that was at 1690 he said look anything that really matters anything that is real there's an upper limit to how much you can want

The speaker references John Locke's work to illustrate a point about the limits of desire for natural things versus symbolic ones like money.

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the work that we do um is derived from a cultural anthropologist ernest becker who in the 1970s uh won a pulitzer prize for a book called the denial of death

The speaker mentions Ernest Becker and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book as the foundational text for their research.

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julian james the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind And so to answer your question

The speaker mentions Julian Jaynes and his book in response to a question about the historical development of consciousness.

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and a guy named c wright mills in a book called the power elite written in the 1950s he made the same point and that's that most of us

The speaker references C. Wright Mills and his book to make a point about societal isolation and its potential consequences.

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and even folks uh like um oh selfish gene richard dawkins he writes in the 1970s that he finds it inconceivable that consciousness uh has no functional value

The speaker mentions Richard Dawkins and his book in the context of the functional value of consciousness.

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Another guy i like a lot eric hoffer wrote a book called the true believer and what all these kind of leaders do

The speaker mentions Eric Hoffer and his book in the context of understanding the behavior of certain leaders.

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um we wrote a book called the worm at the core um on the role of death in life and it was our desire uh to uh present these ideas in a conversational manner

The speaker recommends a book they co-authored as an accessible introduction to the concepts discussed in the podcast.

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because it is well known a woman i like hannah arendt in a book called the origin of totalitarianism uh after written in the 1950s she just points out that um you know it's pretty much the same playbook

The speaker cites Hannah Arendt and her book regarding the recurring patterns in totalitarian movements.

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