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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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780029023105ISBN:0029023106
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor incidences of paragraph bracketing in text. Both covers slightly fanned. One reading crease on spine. No chipping. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. 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: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 1973-11
ISBN-13:9780029021507ISBN:0029021502
Description: Good. Mild amount of underline to crisp pages. Square binding with some weakness in the middle but fully intact. Straight boards. Dust jacket is near mint condition protected in clear mylar. All items packaged promptly with care. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: (13th printing)
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Free Press, NY
Date Published: 1975
Description: VERY GOOD. Curl to covers. Small chip on spine bottom. 3 dog-eared pgs. No creases or markings. Cultural Anthropology. Pulitzer Prize winner. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780684832401ISBN:0684832402
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 1997-05-08
ISBN-13:9780684832401ISBN:0684832402
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780684832401. read more
Edition: 9th Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780029023105ISBN:0029023106
Description: Very Good. 0029023106 Very Good. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The Free Press/A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, London
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780029023808ISBN:0029023807
Description: Very Good. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 314 pp. Book could easlity pass as 'like new', save for minor creases on back cover page and minor shelf wear and edge wear on cover pages. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1973 Free Press hard cover first edition 4th printing-some wear to dust jacket-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy. read more
"This is a great thinker's last book, completed under the shadow of his untimely final illness. It is brutally honest, and it will upset you if you aren't yet ready to accept the true nature of the human condition in all its absurdity.
I'd have given it 5 stars for its insight, but for the fact that Becker lingers too long in dissecting the psyche of Freud, as if Freud's blessing or at least some reconciliation with Freud's belief system were necessary to validate the book. Probably Becker felt that it was his life's work to go where Freud was afraid to. From a professional and scholarly standpoint, perhaps he was right. From my perspective it was an annoying side excursion, because his core thesis rings absolutely true without all the posthumous forensic analysis of Freud's id: all of us are dying even as we live, and we all work mightily to avoid thinking about it, much less accepting it. To understand this monumental denial is to understand much of what can be confusing and puzzling about human behavior, including your own.
A dear friend recently observed that we all ultimately face life -- and death -- alone. This is true. We can be sure of only two things: that we're headed towards our own dissolution, and we are the only person guaranteed to be there at the end.
While this subject matter would, superficially, seem depressing, the truth is, in the long run the best antidote to fear and despair, and the inauthentic aspects of our relationships with others, is to bring reality to our awareness and deal honestly with it. This book will help."
"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?"
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