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Death and Denial Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker
Daniel Liechty
Book Code: C7420
ISBN: 0-275-97420-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97420-6
320 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The writers of this compendium expand and apply Becker's thoughts to a variety of situations and thinkers from any discipline will profit from reading it.
    —PERSPECTIVES on Science and Christian Faith     September 2003
Description: The theory of Generative Death Anxiety is based on the recognition that if there is any uniquely human characteristic, it is the ability to anticipate and prepare for death. This recognition of mortality, however, runs directly counter to our survival instincts and must be repressed, thus creating a constant supply of repressed psychic energy--which, shaped by cultural and narrative factors, emerges in a rich array of human creativity and resourcefulness, but also in racism, religious chauvinism, reactive violence, and other types of pathological behavior. In this edited collection of essays, professionals and academics from across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences outline the ways in which this theory impacts their field and discuss the work of its most famous proponent, Ernest Becker, whose Denial of Death won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. The essays demonstrate that recognition of this deeply rooted source of human behavior and attitudes provides a fertile organizing principle for the humanities and social sciences.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Generative Mortality Anxiety: An Organizing Principle for the Social Sciences and Humanities by Daniel Liechty
  • Psychological Reflections
  • A Perilous Leap from Becker's Theorizing to Empirical Science: Terror Management Theory and Research by Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski and Sheldon Solomon
  • Inflicting Evil as an Alternative to the Dread of Dying: An Independent Test of Generative Death Anxiety by C. Fred Alford
  • Forgiveness: From Heroic Illusion to Human Homecoming by Steen Halling
  • Cognition Creates Character: Neurotic Styles by Daniel Goleman
  • Waging War Against Death by Gavin de Becker
  • Psychotherapeutic Reflections
  • Death Anxiety and the Psychotherapeutic Process by James B. McCarthy
  • Three Forms of Death Anxiety by Robert Langs
  • The Paradoxical Self: An Expansive View of Death Anxiety by Kirk J. Schneider
  • The Hero and the Addict: Reflections on the Apprehension of Death by Jeffrey Kauffman
  • Death Anxiety in the Treatment of Children in Poverty by Claude Barbre
  • Social Scientific Reflections
  • The Transcendent Dimesion in Social Science by James A. Aho
  • The Industrial Organization of Anxiety by Kirby Farrell
  • Death Anxiety in Medical Education and Practice by Neil Elgee
  • Ernst Becker's Anti-Idealist Theory of Communication: Death, Drama, and Purgation by W. Thomas Duncanson
  • Our Existential Vulnerability to Toxic Leaders by Jean Lipman-Blumen
  • Philosophical Reflections
  • Ernst Becker and Emmanuel levinas: Surprising Convergences by Richard Colledge
  • Interrogated by the Mortal: Kenneth Burke and Ernst Becker by C. Allen Carter
  • What Does a Body Know? Analysis of Violence in Ernest Becker and Julia Kristeva by Martha Reineke
  • Denial of Death in the Dissolution of the Modern Self by Walter Truett Anderson
  • The Denial of No-Self: A Buddhist Perspective by David R. Loy
  • Religious Reflections
  • The Enemy as Enemy of God: Psycho-Spiritual Processes in the Ritual Transformation of the Enemy by Sam Keen
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002072802
LCC Class: BD444
Dewey Class: 128
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