Written from 1964 until 1969, the year in which Ernest Becker rediscovered the writings of Otto Rank, these journals offer a poignant answer to Becker's call to all of us, and most of all to himself, in his Pulitzer Prize—winning The Denial of Death (1973)— becoming “conscious of what one is doing to earn [one's] feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.” Reflecting on what he was doing to earn his own feeling of heroism, Becker offers in these journals glimmers of hope for the future impact of his work as well as a riveting self-analysis of his dreams and nightmares.
Becker, E. (1967). Beyond alienation: A philosophy of education for the crisis of democracy. New York: George Braziller.
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Becker, E. (1968). The structure of evil: An essay on the unification of the science of man. New York: George Braziller.
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Becker, E. (1971). The birth and death of meaning. New York: Free Press.
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Becker, E. (1973). The denial of death. New York : Free Press.
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Becker, E. (1975). Escape from evil. New York : Free Press.
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Liechty, D. (Ed.). (2005). The Ernest Becker reader. Seattle: The Ernest Becker Foundation and University of Washington Press.
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Shen, P., (Writer/Director/Producer), & Bennick , G. (Writer/Producer). ( 2002). Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality [Documentary] . (90-min., Transcendental Media, available from www.flightfromdeath .com).
