Ernest Becker
‘Of What Value Is It?’ Honesty and Hope, ‘with a little …
Justification by Works of Law vs. Justification by Faith
Architects, Madmen and Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Deat …
The real motive for every person is to be significant enough to never die.
Another Week Ends: Immortality, Elixirs of Life, False Prophets, F …
1. Lots of people talking about immortality this week! Wonder why that’s happening! First off, […]
The Alien Work of Dr. House
We love to talk about Ernest Becker’s book, The Denial of Death. In it, he […]
Superhero Undergraduates and the Culture of Overachievement
From a rather frightening article in the recent Harvard Alumni Magazine entitled “Nonstop: Today’s Undergraduates […]
Annie Hall, Normal Neuroses, and the Mainspring of Human Activity
The recent posts about Woody Allen and Lucian Freud reminded me of a scene in […]