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| Named Person: | Ernest Becker |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Liechty |
| ISBN: | 0275974200 9780275974206 |
| OCLC Number: | 50089930 |
| Description: | xvi, 301 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A perilous leap from Becker's theorizing to empirical science : terror management theory and research / Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszcynski, and Sheldon Solomon -- Inflicting evil as an alternative to the dread of dying : an independent test of generative death anxiety / C. Fred Alford -- Forgiveness : from heroic illusion to human homecoming / Steen Halling -- Cognition creates character : neurotic styles / Daniel Goleman -- Waging war against death / Gavin de Becker -- Death anxiety and the psychotherapeutic process / James B. McCarthy -- Three forms of death anxiety / Robert Langs -- The paradoxical self : an expansive view of death anxiety / Kirk J. Schneider -- The hero and the addict : reflections on the apprehension of death / Jeffrey Kauffman -- Death anxiety in the treatment of children in poverty / Claude Barbre -- The transcendent dimension in social science / James A. Aho -- The industrial organization of anxiety / Kirby Farrell -- Mortality anxiety : an existential understanding for medical education and practice / Neil Elgee -- Ernest Becker's anti-idealist theory of communication : death, drama, and purgation / W. Thomas Duncanson -- Our existential vulnerability to toxic leaders / Jean Lipman-Blumen -- Ernest Becker and Emmanuel Levinas : surprising convergences / Richard Colledge -- Interrogated by the mortal : Kenneth Burke and Ernest Becker / C. Allen Carter -- What does a body know? : analysis of violence in Ernest Becker and Julia Kristeva / Martha J. Reineke -- Death denial and the dissolution of the modern self / Walter Truett Anderson -- The denial of no-self : a Buddhist appreciation (appropriation) of Becker / David R. Loy -- The enemy as enemy of God : psycho-spiritual processes in the ritual transformation of the enemy / Sam Keen -- Transference as religious solution to the terror of death / Jerry S. Piven -- Religion as creative illusion : Feuerbach and Becker / Van A. Harvey -- Reality check : mortality awareness and Christian anthropology / Sally A. Kenel -- The religious hero and the escape from evil : a feminist challenge to Ernest Becker's religious mystification / Merlyn E. Mowrey. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Daniel Liechty. |
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