Welcome to the Unofficial Ernest Becker Site

by Peter on July 11, 2009

I created this site because of the lack of a central location to for Ernest Becker resources. It’s extremely unfortunate for readers to finish The Denial of Death and then have no place to go to learn more and discuss. I hope this website does something to fill that void.

The organization of this site is split into two navigation bars. The first is at the top with links to the Ernest Becker biography, Contact page, and so on. Additionally, there are Becker specific pages available on the right hand menu.

This blog is also subscribed to the unofficial Ernest Becker listserv/group discussion. It’s automatically posting new conversations each hour from the listserv thereby providing a public archive for everyone.

Enjoy!

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Ambrosio now at 3.4 rating!

by Peter on March 9, 2010

Thanks for weighing in on Ambrosio. Some of the reviews are really worthwhile reading in themselves.
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From: Henry Richards
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:02 PM
Subject: Call to Arms re: Ambrosio’s Philosophy and Religion and the Meaning of Life

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My First Video

March 9, 2010

Hello to group. Im Joan , and I have produse first clip with me . Is it normal? [link]
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Call to Arms re: Ambrosio’s Philosophy and Religion and the Meaning of Life

March 8, 2010

Many listserv members have praised Ambrosio’s inclusion of Becker as not only a pivotal intellectual figure in Western thought, but perhaps the culmination of our understanding of the saintly and heroic paths. If you go to The Teaching Company (TTC) web site, you will find only 6 ratings of his course with comments, some of [...]

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Making MEANING is how to make money

March 5, 2010

Here’s an I.T. entrepeneur whose message that the only way to financial success is to focus on making meaning and to focus on making meaning, rather than focusing on making money in relation to any and all kinds of projects. I think Becker would have liked this message. [link]
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Discovery of oldest symbolic action: 60,000 BCE

March 3, 2010

This news relates well to Ernest Becker’s ideas: [link] ~~~~~~~ H. TALAT HALMAN, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Religion Central Michigan University 301 Anspach Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 [link] [link] [link] [link]
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Intelligence, Atheism, and Liberalism

March 2, 2010

I picked this reference up from another list and thought I’d pass on to the Beckerites. Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent SATOSHI KANAZAWA London School of Economics and Political Science The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. [...]

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Unsubscibe

March 2, 2010

Please remove me from this list.
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Re: Heroic action

March 2, 2010

Jim L quoted James and asked: "Can reading William James help us defeat terrorism?" –Only if we can get people to conduct a different kind of play in the theatre. As we all know, there will always be a theatre, and there will always will be a play. It just [...]

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Heroic action

March 2, 2010

From an interesting essay by Tom Jacobs. Can reading William James help us defeat terrorism? University of Maryland social psychologist Arie Kruglanski is convinced of it. He opened a recently published paper on the motivation of suicide bombers with a quote from the Victorian-era psychologist and philosopher:
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Re: What about the "will to die’?

March 2, 2010

Kate, Will to live… will to die… fear of life and death… fear of being (depression), fear of non-being (anxiety). Just ruminating. [hehe] But they all seem inevitable apects of being humun. Even suicidal thoughts… And suicide itself. And love. And joy. And boredom. And the desire to escape one’s [...]

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