Necessary Illusions: Life, Death and the Construction of Meaning

This paper introduces the work of the late cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Becker argued that the cause of human suffering is directly related to the strategies people use to cope with their mortality awareness. By concentrating on his last two books, The Denial of Death (1973) and Escape fr...

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Main Author: James Hardie-Bick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2014-11-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/451
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