Death and Denial
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780275974206
Subjects: Cognitive Psychology; General; Movements - Humanism; Philosophy / General; Philosophy; Becker, Ernest; Death; Psychological aspects
Description: The theory of Generative Death Anxiety (GDA) suggests that at the deepest level, human behavior is motivated by the unavoidable need to shield oneself from consciousness of human mortality. Recognition that fear of death and its consequences necessarily colors the affairs of humans clearly runs through the history of religion and philosophy from the most ancient sources to the present. GDA theory is a developing body of research and writing that stands in this line of human thinking about death, giving prominent focus especially to pervasive human mortality anxiety in the range of its symbolic expressions and the behavioral consequences of this anxiety.