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Ernest Becker
Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live.
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Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America’s turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Although Ernest Becker’s life and career were cut short, his major writings…
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Sally A. Kenel
Mortal Gods, a study of the work of Pulitzer Prize winner Ernest Becker, establishes that Becker’s reflections on morality entitle him to be considered a fundamental theologian. In addition, Becker’s…
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Daniel Liechty
In this edited collection of essays, professionals and academics from across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences outline the ways in which Generative Death Anxiety theory impacts their…
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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…
Stephen W. Martin
This text reads Becker both as a prophet of modernity and as an observer of its decline. Situated within the disciplinary approach of theology of culture , it discerns the…
Jarvis Streeter
Jarvis Streeter details Ernest Becker’s anthropological theories and compares them with traditional and contemporary Christian thought on human nature, sin, and salvation in order to see how the two approaches…
Ron Evans
Becker’s hypothesis about psychic and spiritual unity within the Rankian idea of a hero provides the framework for this book. By extending Rank’s and Becker’s conceptions of heroism from a…
Ernest Julius Becker
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
A Contribution to the Comparative Study of the Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the…
With Special Reference To The Middle-English Versions.
Joseph Ernest De Becker
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some…
The Nightless City - History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…
(Revised draft of) Code of Civil Procedure (1904). This book, Code of Civil Procedure (Revised draft of), by Joseph Ernest de Becker, is a replication of a book originally published…
Ernest Van Bruyssel
Publication date: 1894 Subjects: History / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Mice, Hamsters…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Clifford R. Shaw
Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or own story as an important instrument of…
