Ernest Becker
Sign in to saveAmerican cultural anthropologist (1924–1974)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 1974
- Works
- 16
Top works
- The Denial of Death
- The birth and death of meaning
- La negación de la muerte
- Ölümü Inkar
- Zen
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 71
- Total plays
- 1,113
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach
· 1968 · cited 8,589x
- Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
· 2011 · cited 7,877x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,749x
- Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area
· 2020 · cited 7,380x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
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Quotes
- “The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.”
- “Our heroic projects that are aimed at destroying evil have the paradoxical effect of bringing more evil into the world. Human conflicts are life and death struggles—my gods against your gods, my immortality project against your immortality project. The root of humanly caused evil is not man’s animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image.”
- “It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”
- “The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
- “With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion, philosophy, science and love afford, but inner illusions which first condition the outer [i.e., a secure sense of one’s active powers, and of being able to count on the powers of others].”
- “The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.”
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- www.ernestbecker.org
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- date of birth
- 1924-09-27
- date of death
- 1974-03-06
- name in native language
- Ernest Becker
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Categories
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