Necessary Illusions: Life, Death and the Construction of Meaning
<p>This paper introduces the work of the late cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Becker argued that the cause of human suffering is directly related to the strategies people use to cope with their mortality awareness. By concentrating on his last two books, The Denial of Death (1973) and E...
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Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Oñati Socio-Legal Series |
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| Online Access: | http://ssrn.com/abstract=2619408 |