W. D. Wright

Death and Denial

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker
Herausgeber: Liechty, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

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 field and discuss the work of its most famous proponent, Ernest Becker, whose ^IDenial of Death^R 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. 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 ^IDenial of Death^R 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780275974206
• ISBN-10: 0275974200
• Artikelnr.: 21042171

Autorenporträt

DANIEL LIECHTY is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Illinois State University and a licensed clinical social worker specializing in issues related to grief, loss, and death.

Inhaltsangabe

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