出版社: Free Press
出版年: 1997-5-8
页数: 336
定价: USD 15.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780684832401
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 nat...
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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Dr. Ernest Becker was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer.
Becker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrant parents. After completing military service, in which he served in the infantry and helped to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, he attended Syracuse University in New York. Upon graduation he joined the US Embass...
Dr. Ernest Becker was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer.
Becker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrant parents. After completing military service, in which he served in the infantry and helped to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, he attended Syracuse University in New York. Upon graduation he joined the US Embassy in Paris as an administrative officer. In his early 30s, he returned to Syracuse University to pursue graduate studies in cultural anthropology. He completed his Ph.D. in 1960. The first of his nine books, Zen, A Rational Critique (1961) was based on his doctoral dissertation. After Syracuse, he became a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC (Canada).
Becker came to the recognition that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche. The reach of such a perspective consequently encompasses science and religion, even to what Sam Keen suggests is Becker's greatest achievement, the creation of the "science of evil." In formulating his theories Becker drew on the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Norman O. Brown, Erich Fromm, and especially Otto Rank. Becker came to believe that a person's character is essentially formed around the process of denying his own mortality, that this denial is necessary for the person to function in the world, and that this character-armor prevents genuine self-knowledge. Much of the evil in the world, he believed, was a consequence of this need to deny death.
Because of his breadth of vision and avoidance of social science specialization, Becker was an academic outcast in the last decade of his life. It was only with the award of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his 1973 book, The Denial of Death (two months after his own death from cancer at the age of 49) that he gained wider recognition. Escape From Evil (1975) was intended as a significant extension of the line of reasoning begun in Denial of Death, developing the social and cultural implications of the concepts explored in the earlier book. Although the manuscript's second half was left unfinished at the time of his death, it was completed from what manuscript existed as well as from notes on the unfinished chapter.
The Ernest Becker Foundation is devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on contributing to the reduction of violence in human society, using Becker's basic ideas to support research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion.
Some of the above information is from the EBF website and used by permission.
Becker also wrote The Birth and Death of Meaning which gets its title from the concept of man moving away from the simple minded ape into a world of symbols and illusions, and then deconstructing those illusions through his own evolving intellect.
Flight From Death (2006) is a documentary film directed by Patrick Shen, based on Becker's work, and partially funded by the Ernest Becker Foundation.
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0 有用 盯盯鞋 2023-11-20 19:49:16 四川
确实解释了很多现象,读的时候脑子里举的形象例子是eva
3 有用 Fluxus 2011-09-10 23:27:21
精神分析作为心理学的一个分支已经在这个核磁共振的时代没落了,但是作为现代思潮的一个源头,它继续根深蒂固、改头换面地存在于社会文化之中。这本书的学术价值在于,它在人类文明全景图中对“死亡焦虑”进行了尝试性的定位。但也许应该从另一个角度去读这本书——一部精致的史诗,充满智慧、灵感、想象和悲伤。
0 有用 Klaude 2023-03-08 00:25:04 美国
看到头秃。。。
4 有用 在别处 2014-02-26 21:54:11
从存在主义的角度总结和发展弗洛伊德以来的心理分析学,最终停留在克尔凯郭尔的世界里
0 有用 悬浮的潜水艇 2023-06-24 19:15:32 上海
Dragging me into the rabbit hole! Thought-provoking and hard to digest.
0 有用 kookyobject 2024-05-27 19:02:52 上海
和友邻一起读的,非常惊喜。虽然写的一般但是挖掘了Kierkegaard和精神分析之间的关系(比如他对despair、anxiety、schizophrenia的理解,以及最后通过和神的一对一关系来完成终极移情来克服死亡)。虽然有严重的心理化Kierkegaard自身的leap of faith对应的真实存在的神,但提供了荣格之外另一个非常有趣的神学精神分析路线。
0 有用 Yiru 2023-12-11 11:56:13 上海
The self-glorification that he needed in his innermost nature he now looked for in the love partner. We want to be rid of our faults, of our feeling of nothingness. We want to be justified, to know ou... The self-glorification that he needed in his innermost nature he now looked for in the love partner. We want to be rid of our faults, of our feeling of nothingness. We want to be justified, to know our existence has not been in vain. (展开)
0 有用 盯盯鞋 2023-11-20 19:49:16 四川
确实解释了很多现象,读的时候脑子里举的形象例子是eva
0 有用 悬浮的潜水艇 2023-06-24 19:15:32 上海
Dragging me into the rabbit hole! Thought-provoking and hard to digest.
0 有用 Klaude 2023-03-08 00:25:04 美国
看到头秃。。。