false 2761 9 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. 97366 1973 The Denial Of Death total:358|5:190|4:98|3:47|2:14|1:9| 358 1520 646 81 5 14 false false Tue Apr 03 22:00:31 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 27 14:50:49 -0700 2007 I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don’t want to live in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live in my apartment. —Woody Allen.

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