Denial of death

By:

Becker, Ernest

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Free Press 2023Description: 316pISBN:

9780684832401

Subject(s):

Psychology

DDC classification:

128.5 BEC

Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.

List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals August, 2026

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	128.5 BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Abhinav Jain, IAS (TRN11153)	2026-08-13	185783

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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.

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