About this title: Challenging the Freudian school of thought, this book portrays humans as constantly struggling against inherent ambiguities in themselves and the world, while trying to define themselves to achieve immortality. It sees the denial of death as man's attempt to distinguish himself beyond the grave.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780029023808ISBN:0029023807
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Date Published: 1976-03-25
ISBN-13:9780029023105ISBN:0029023106
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780029023105ISBN:0029023106
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1997-05-08
ISBN-13:9780684832401ISBN:0684832402
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780684832401ISBN:0684832402
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 336 pages. (336 pages) challenging the freudian school of thought, this book portrays humans as constantly struggling against inherent ambiguities in themselves and the world, while trying to define themselves to achieve immortality. it sees the denial of death as man's attempt to distinguish himself beyond the grave. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Edition: First edition. Revised Ed. ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780029023808ISBN:0029023807
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. pocket attached to inside of back cover stamp from former owner on inside covers otherwise a beautiful tight clean reading copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780684832401ISBN:0684832402
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Edition: Ninth Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: The Free Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780029023105ISBN:0029023106
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"This book is one of the few books I would consider required reading by all the minds capable of following its subject matter. I'd go further and suggest we should encourage it for everyone but the fact is most people would find it undigestable.
While i don't agree to the full with what he suggests, I find so many of the topics to be highly interesting and this is a book that could spawn years of consideration and it's very likely much of the insight will find its way to my day to day understanding of the world.
It would be impossible to even summarize the content, or depth of this book and so I won't bother. I will just suggest as strongly as I can that you read it."
"A true masterpiece for all lovers of existentialism!! Becker is a true genius whose brilliant thesis argues quite convincingly that the fear of death is the single greatest human motivator, and that every single thing we do - from all of our paranoias and perversions - stem from this fear. And, in order to survive and function in this world, we are forced to deny the reality of our own mortality, a mortality that is obvious in everything around us, especially in our own temporal physical bodies. No wonder Becker won the Pulitzer prize for this publication!"
Becker's Pulitzer Prize winning book was written while he was dying-- it is his final gift to humanity. Praised by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, The New York Times Book Review, Sam Keen, you name it. One of my brightest, most humane friends described it as, "The only book I've ever read twice." Becker says-- very thoroughly, too-- that everything we humans do is to blot out the understanding that we die. That includes all the monuments to our egos we leave behind: shopping centers, vineyards, hotels, motels, cities, piles of stuff for our relatives to clean up, as well as poetry, art, and literature. What is your legacy?"
"This is a pretty incredible read for anyone who enjoys honest self-reflection, specifically of the ego and its constructs. This book is on my list of "books that taught me how to live life""
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