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	Flight From Death - Dr. Ernest Becker
		Becker, a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer, came to the realization that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche.
		Because of his breadth of vision and avoidance of social science pigeonholes (given the independence of his thinking in the 60s), Becker was an academic outcast in the last decade of his life.
		The second half of his magnum opus, Escape from Evil (1975) developed the social and cultural implications of the concepts explored in the earlier book and is an equally important and brilliant companion volume.
	www.flightfromdeath.com /becker.htm (262 words)

	PsychNews 2(4)
		Becker relentlessly opposed the narrow positivists who were taking over the chairs of academic power and who arrogantly maintained that fundamental questions are nonsense, belonging in sophomore philosophy classes, and that the only legitimate path to knowledge is the slow, steady accumulation of value-neutral facts.
		Becker was a victim of the purge of radicals and Marxists from American universities during the late sixties and early seventies.
		Becker believed that the driving mechanism of self and society is the denial of death, that is, the creation of a web of meanings, goals and activities which generate the illusion of transcending death.
	userpage.fu-berlin.de /~expert/psychnews/2_4/pn24e.htm (2747 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Ernest Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist (additional info and facts about cultural anthropologist) and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer, came to the recognition that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche.
		Because of his breadth of vision and avoidance of social science pigeonholes (given the independence of his thinking in the 1960s (The decade from 1960 to 1969)), Becker was an academic outcast in the last decade of his life.
		The Ernest Becker Foundation,, is devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on violence, using Becker's Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), his Pulitzer Prize-winning Denial of Death and its companion Escape From Evil, to support research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/ernest_becker.htm (410 words)

	Ernest Becker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ernest Becker (1925-March 6, 1974, Vancouver, British Columbia), a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer, came to the recognition that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche.
		The Ernest Becker Foundation, [1], is devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on violence, using Becker's Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), his Pulitzer Prize-winning Denial of Death and its companion Escape From Evil, to support research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion.
		Another notable book Becker wrote is entitled The Birth and Death of Meaning (ISBN 0029021901), which gets its title from the concept of man moving away from the simple minded ape into a world of symbols and illusions, and then deconstructing those illusions thru his own evolving intellect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernest_Becker (495 words)

	Ninth Street Center Journal 7: Dean Hannotte
		Becker's work brings to light an amazing story of sincerity and dedication on the part of scores of unsung thinkers who continued to believe in the quest for a unified human science even when a lifetime of effort failed to shed light on where progress might next be made.
		Becker blames this disillusionment on the Freudianism that was the rage between the wars.
		Becker wanders into some unsuccessful speculations, for me, as when he claims that the major positive result of twentieth century sociology was "when it uncovered for man the social-fictional nature of his own life-meanings," (36) i.e.
	www.ninthstreetcenter.org /J7Hanno.htm (3379 words)

	PsychNews 2(4)
		Ernest attended all of Szasz's lectures, seminars and clinics, and became part of a small circle of intellectuals who gathered around Szasz for fascinating discussion of psychoanalytic theory, the sociology of psychiatry and the history of ideas.
		Becker agreed with Szasz that the concept of mental illness is a modern myth which, like all social myths, functions as an ideology, in this case, to facilitate and justify an extra- legal system of social evaluation and control.
		Becker believed that to understand oneself, one must accept the body, accept that humans are animals, embodied creatures of meaning, who are born and die in a dualistic world of physical objects and evaluated meanings, and who fear the death of meaning more than the death of the body itself.
	userpage.fu-berlin.de /~expert/psychnews/2_4/pn24d.htm (2438 words)

	The Very Best Books : The Ernest Becker Reader
		Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America’s turbulent 1960s and 1970s.
		Ernest Becker is best known for the books written in the last few years before his death from cancer, including the highly praised Pulitzer Prize-winning volume The Denial of Death (1974) and Escape from Evil (1975).
		Although Ernest Becker's life and career were cut short, his major writings have remained continually in print and have captured the interest of subsequent generations of readers.
	www.elise.com /store/0295984708/The_Ernest_Becker_Reader.html (293 words)

	Ernest Becker ~ The Denial of Death by Alan Gullette
		Ernest Becker's purpose in writing The Denial of Death (New York: The Free Press, 1973) was to provide a summation of psychology after Freud, with especial reference to his unrecognized hero Otto Rank, and, by drawing parallels with the earlier Kierkegaard, to move toward a "merger of psychology and the mythico-religions-perspective" (xi).
		In his argument, Becker relives heavily on ontological assumptions in formulating the "problem" to which he tries to provide a "solution." It seems to me that he sets up his problem in such a way that its solution is nearly impossible, logically speaking.
		Becker's basic ontological stance (which I will later question and which he himself does not seem too be too clear about is that the human being is "paradoxical" or "ambiguous" in being both an animal and a mind.
	alangullette.com /essays/psych/becker.htm (2165 words)

	Ronald Leifer, M.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Gradually, Becker and I shaped a common vision which seemed to be in harmony with Hollender's vision of an interdisciplinary psychoanalytic center, namely, to bring modern knowledge from the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy to bear on a new understanding of the forms of mental suffering which are designated as mental illness.
		Becker's hopes for the development of a new humanistic science were dashed by developments at Syracuse, but he continued to write as he pursued the painful career of a peripatetic intellectual.
		Becker told Hollender that he would not meet him at the hospital because he was not on the staff of the hospital, he was on the faculty of the medical school.
	www.szasz.com /leifer.html (9441 words)

	PTypes - Ernest Becker links
		Ernest Becker grasped the insight that a primary motive of mental life is the denial of death.
		Becker argued, that these sophisticated human intellectual capacities created a unique problem for our species : because of our highly developed intelligence, we humans are forced to be aware, that we have to die some day, that the only truly inevitable thing in life is that life will end.
		Becker, whose book (and whose life) struggled with death as the central power with which we must deal, pointed out that our most heroic human projects are likely to be devoted to the effort to deny death its victory.
	www.ptypes.com /becker.html (2379 words)

	PTypes’ "Ernest Becker" links (page two)
		Becker's thesis is that the fear of death and insignificance is the greatest fear haunting humans.
		Ernest Becker believes that there are three fundamental responses to the finality of death.
		Ernest Becker, in his final work, Escape from Evil (Macmillan, 1965), pointed out the essential role of scapegoating in the genesis of human evil.
	www.ptypes.com /becker2.html (2527 words)

	The First 100 Persons Who Shaped Southern Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Becker appealed, claiming the cost of the water system modifications would be too expensive.
		Ernest A. Becker II was the family's first real builder, constructing homes and real estate all over the Southern California.
		Ernest III built his first housing tract by the time he was a junior at the University of Southern California, which he attended from 1938 to 1940, distinguishing himself on the Trojan football team.
	www.1st100.com /part2/becker.html (2125 words)

	Ernest Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer, came to the realization that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche.
		The Ernest Becker Foundation, http://www.ernestbecker.org, is devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on violence, using Becker's Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), his Pulitzer Prize-winning Denial of Death and its companion Escape From Evil, to support research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion.
		Becker explains why we do what we do in graphic and accessible terms.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ernest_becker (498 words)

	Ernest Becker Foundation Newsletter: July 1999
		In luminous prose, Dr. Kidder characterized Ernest Becker's work as: "an enterprise....which turns....on what is called the science of anthropology, the discipline which takes as its subject matter the being defined by the eruption into consciousness.
		Becker's enthusiastic appreciation of the Enlightenment and of our present day debt to scientific knowledge led him to be moved, with apologies, to ponder the enigma of conscious presence and its significance by forming questions which were not scientific/empirical but philosophical/anthropological in nature.
		But Becker the anthropologist sought a science of humankind in the round and so would have to balance wonder at biology with an understanding of the darkness, the depravity of humanity in culture.
	www.staff.washington.edu /nelgee/newsletter/1999/0799/14c.htm (1067 words)

	Ernest Becker
		Becker attended all of Szasz’s lectures, seminars, and clinics, and became part of a small circle of intellectuals who gathered around Szasz for fascinating discussion of psychoanalytic theory, the sociology of psychiatry, and the history of ideas.
		Becker believed that to understand oneself one must accept the body, accept that humans are animals, who are born and die in a dualistic world of physical objects and evaluated meaning, and who fear the death of meaning more than the death of the body itself.
		Ernest believed that the most worthwhile intellectual questions of human nature, human destiny, and the meaning of life.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/becker_ernest.html (503 words)

	benzo.org.uk : Battle to beat pill addiction, Christchurch Star, December 19, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Prescription from hell: Ernest Becker was prescribed a drug for 26 years before being told it was addictive.
		Rangiora resident Ernest Becker was prescribed a Class C, controlled Drug for 26 years by Kiwi doctors before an Australian specialist told him it was addictive.
		Mr Becker took his case to a top lawyer, who was confident of a big payout, but asked for $7,000 in fees upfront.
	www.benzo.org.uk /nz4.htm (804 words)

	The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0844669326
		Ernest Becker's remarkable book "The Denial of Death", along with its companion work "Escape From Evil", is the best book I have ever read.
		Becker tackles an enormous quantity of topics smoothly and gracefully, and goes directly to the jugular vein of existence with a writing style which is at once erratic and cohesive, and always conversational.
		Becker has only scorn for any metaphysical position that allows for human consciousness having any access to anything transcendent, such as is found in the later works of Brown, Fromm, Jung and even Tillich, among others.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0844669326 (1604 words)

	DEATH_GUI
		Explain Becker's argument that "primitive" death celebrations and modern death anxiety each, in their own way, illustrate the universality of the fear of death.
		But Becker asserts that seeing "the world as it really is is devastating and terrifying".
		Adults cried in the street when theory heard, and families watched replays of the funeral over and over, and to this day many still believe he was the target of some elaborate conspiracy.
	www.puc.edu /Faculty/Aubyn_Fulton/fulton/courses/personality/DEATH_GUI.htm (1358 words)

	Flight From Death - Books
		This fascinating book has practical implications and will be an irreplaceable resource for mental health practitioners, researchers, and anyone concerned with the causes and effects of terrorism.
		Death and Denial : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker
		The meta-thesis of this book is that Ernest Becker's theory of Generative Death Anxiety represents a fecund and creative organizing principle for uniting the humanities and the social sciences.
	www.flightfromdeath.com /books.htm (639 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Gaming Board grills license applicants
		Control Board members welcomed back the Becker name, as Ernest Becker IV and Kathleen Becker, trustees of the Ernest A. Becker and Kathleen C. Becker Family Trust, were licensed as owners and managers of a slot route for a group of convenience stores with the Short Line name.
		Ernest Becker built the Charleston Heights neighborhood, including the Arizona Charlie's hotel-casino on Decatur Boulevard.
		While the Beckers were welcomed with open arms, one of the family's partners in the venture endured a 2 1/2-hour grilling by regulators before being recommended for a two-year restricted license.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2004/sep/10/517489302.html (683 words)

	The Melancholic Existentialism of Ernest Becker
		Although in earlier sections of The Denial of Death, Becker does write of the awe-inspiring aspect of reality encountered outside repression and denial, he at the same time regards this as overwhelming and paralyzing and needing to be defended against by the individual simply in order to function.
		According to the Bible, the Creation is good, but for Becker it is a meaningless, chaotic realm of disorder, disintegration and death against which human beings need to be protected by illusions of meaning, by a gnostic religion positing another, more orderly and meaningful world, "beyond" this vale of tears.
		The fact that Ernest Becker and Peter Berger produced such one-sidedly dark and pessimistic visions of human existence suggests the nature of the persecutory phantasies that may have gripped them.
	www.yorku.ca /dcarveth/Becker.html (1513 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: Escape from Evil (Ernest Becker) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Of course, to not remain open to change and to cease to challenge one's 'shell' is to run the risk of simply reconstructing another that is equally misleading.
		Becker is at once cultural analysist, religious scholar, and social psychologist.
		Ernest Becker is a must read, and "Escape from Evil" is a good place to start.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0029024501.html (729 words)

	Amazon.com: The Denial of Death: Books: Ernest Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Becker states at the outset the problem in our day is not that there isn't enough knowledge, the problem is that there isn't enough integration of this knowledge into a kind of wisdom that would properly summarize the accumulated knowledge.
		In the end I did feel that Becker got somewhat carried away with his insight that the denial of death is the key to understanding people's deepest neuroses - he took it to what I felt was the extreme that it is simply impossible to transcend the denial of death.
		Becker also attempts to show that neurosis is at least in part a result of not being able to erect the 'denial of death' defense mechanisms so many do, and that those who traverse the depths of human existence cannot but go mad to some degree.
	www.amazon.com /Denial-Death-Ernest-Becker/dp/0684832402 (1806 words)

	FasterCures: Board of Directors
		Ernest Bates, M.D. is a board-certified neurosurgeon, Chairman and CEO of the American Shared Hospital Services, and a Emeritus Trustee of Johns Hopkins University.
		Gary Becker, Ph.D. is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago and a 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
		Leon D. Black is the founding partner of Apollo Management, L.P. Nancy G. Brinker is the former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and Founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
	www.fastercures.org /sec/bod (331 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Denial of Death: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I think a closer reading by an earlier reviewer would have avoided the idea that Becker was not advocating for religion but looking at religion as an anthropological phenomena and symbolic action system through which human beings interpret the world, and was definitely not suggesting it was an 'answer' to death.
		My view is that Becker calls for the courage to be (to steal Tillich's phrase) and that the act or process of creativity is in and of itself meaningful - is possibly the only higher level authentic way of being.
		Strange that Becker would have us believe in the book that his is the most honest theory, and that we are being honest with ourselves by accepting his guidance, when the opposite is so.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0029023807 (990 words)

	Escape From Evil, Constant Reader Discussion
		As Becker puts it in EFE's preface, "In THE DENIAL OF DEATH I argued that man's innate and all-encompassing fear of death drives him to attempt to transcend death through cul- turally standardized hero systems and symbols.
		Becker's ambition in tackling the problem of human evil, and what seems to me to be his success in that endeavor, might be best described with one of EB's favorite adjectives: heroic.
		Becker, as well as the authorities that he is fond of quoting, are more in disagreement with Freud than agreement.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/escapefromevil.htm (2709 words)

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