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The Denial of Death
FromLit Century
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, poet and critic Elisa Gabbert (The Unreality of Memory) joins host Catherine Nichols to discuss Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death. The book draws from psychology and philosophy to develop a theory of human behaviors motivated by fear of death and the desire to influence the world past an individual's natural life span. Gabbert and Nichols talk about how Becker's ideas look in a modern context of climate change, pandemic and sexual liberation.
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Released:
Mar 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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