Death and denial : interdisciplinary perspectives on the legacy of Ernest Becker /
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002. |
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| Description: | xvi, 301 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4811824 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Generative Death Anxiety--An Organizing Principle for the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Part I.. Psychological Reflections
- 1.. A Perilous Leap from Becker's Theorizing to Empirical Science: Terror Management Theory and Research
- 2.. Inflicting Evil as an Alternative to the Dread of Dying: An Independent Test of Generative Death Anxiety
- 3.. Forgiveness: From Heroic Illusion to Human Homecoming
- 4.. Cognition Creates Character: Neurotic Styles
- 5.. Waging War Against Death
- Part II.. Psychotherapeutic Reflections
- 6.. Death Anxiety and the Psychotherapeutic Process
- 7.. Three Forms of Death Anxiety
- 8.. The Paradoxical Self: An Expansive View of Death Anxiety
- 9.. The Hero and the Addict: Reflections on the Apprehension of Death
- 10.. Death Anxiety in the Treatment of Children in Poverty
- Part III.. Social Scientific Reflections
- 11.. The Transcendent Dimension in Social Science
- 12.. The Industrial Organization of Anxiety
- 13.. Mortality Anxiety: An Existential Understanding for Medical Education and Practice
- 14.. Ernest Becker's Anti-Idealist Theory of Communication: Death, Drama, and Purgation
- 15.. Our Existential Vulnerability to Toxic Leaders
- Part IV.. Philosophical Reflections
- 16.. Ernest Becker and Emmanuel Levinas: Surprising Convergences
- 17.. Interrogated by the Mortal: Kenneth Burke and Ernest Becker
- 18.. What Does a Body Know? Analysis of Violence in Ernest Becker and Julia Kristeva
- 19.. Death Denial and the Dissolution of the Modern Self
- 20.. The Denial of No-Self: A Buddhist Appreciation (Appropriation) of Becker
- Part V.. Religious Reflections
- 21.. The Enemy as Enemy of God: Psycho-Spiritual Processes in the Ritual Transformation of the Enemy
- 22.. Transference as Religious Solution to the Terror of Death
- 23.. Religion as Creative Illusion: Feuerbach and Becker
- 24.. Reality Check: Mortality Awareness and Christian Anthropology
- 25.. The Religious Hero and the Escape from Evil: A Feminist Challenge to Ernest Becker's Religious Mystification
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors
