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Death and Denial : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker
Death and Denial Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker In this edited collection of essays, professionals and academics from across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences outline the ways in which Generative Death Anxiety theory impacts their field and discuss the work of its most famous proponent, Ernest Becker, whose Denial of Death won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. The essays demonstrat... more »e that recognition of this deeply rooted source of human behavior and attitudes provides a fertile organizing principle for the humanities and social sciences.« less