Ernest Becker

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Confronting Mortality: The Enduring Legacy of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil

Ernest Becker’s work remains a profound exploration of how humanity navigates the specter of death, revealing the societal structures and personal aspirations created to deflect this ever-present reality. His Pulitzer-winning The Denial of Death (1973) and its thematic counterpart, Escape …

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The Pathetic Consumer: Alienation, Power, and the Illusion of Fulfillment

“Most people would agree that the word alienation applies to modern man; that something happened in history which gradually despoiled the average man, transformed him from an active creative being into the pathetic consumer who smiles proudly from our billboards …

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