The Denial of Death 本书 pdf 阅读和下载 欧内斯特·贝克尔
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of life's work, Denying Death is Ernst Becker's brilliant and enthusiastic answer to the "why" of human existence. In contrast to the dominant Freudian school, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - the refusal of man to admit his own death. It thus sheds a new light on the nature of humanity and issues an invitation to life and life that still reverberates more than twenty years after its writing. review Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., author of Death and Dying Brings together what others have torn to shreds and rendered useless. It is one of those rare masterpieces that will stimulate your thoughts, intellectual curiosity and last but not least your soul... The New York Times Book Review...a brave act of electrifying intelligence and emotion, an optimist and a revolutionary, destined to endure... The Albuquerque Journal Book Review ... To read it is to know the joy that is inherent in the development of a mind that understands new possibilities and forms a new synthesis. Death Denial is a great book - one of the few great books of the twentieth or any other century. Chicago Sun-Times The importance of this book is hard to overstate; Baker succeeded brilliantly in what he set out to do, and the effort was essential.