Ernest Becker wrote interdisciplinary psychology and cultural theory about mortality, identity and the ways human beings manage awareness of death. The Denial of Death argues that much behaviour and culture can be understood as attempts to create meaning and symbolic forms of immortality, drawing on psychoanalysis, anthropology and existential thought. Escape from Evil extends the argument into sacrifice, violence and social systems. Becker's writing is broad and speculative rather than narrowly empirical, moving freely between Freud, Kierkegaard, religion and cultural history. The strongest audience overlap is with readers of existential psychology, death studies, cultural theory and philosophical approaches to human motivation. Read more Less
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