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Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and... -
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker 9780684832401
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €15.53Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work,The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to... -
The Ernest Becker Reader by Daniel Liechty
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €33.93Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America's turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social anthropology and driven by a transcending curiosity about... -
Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker 9780029021903
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.34Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.About the AuthorAfter receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from... -
Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker 9780029024508
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world."A profound, nourishing book...absolutely essential to the... -
Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul by Otto Rank 9780801872372
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The result was this now-classic work,... -
Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker by Daniel Liechty 9780275974206
Booksplease Price: €109.11In this edited collection of essays, professionals and academics from across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences outline the ways in which Generative Death Anxiety theory impacts their... -
Human Nature, Human Evil, and Religion: Ernest Becker and Christian Theology by Jarvis Streeter 9780761843573
Booksplease Price: €52.73In this book, Jarvis Streeter details Ernest Becker's anthropological theories and compares them with traditional and contemporary Christian thought on human nature, sin, and salvation in order to... -
The Animal at Unease with Itself: Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2-3 by Isaac M. Alderman 9781978702912
Booksplease Price: €107.78Quoting Derrida, Isaac Alderman draws attention to the fact that humans are the only animals who are disturbed by nakedness. This unease with regard to our own bodies is an important aspect of the... -
Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital by James K. Rowe 9781032523361
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Radical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of... -
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment: Understanding Human Being by Nancy K Dess
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the concept of 'human being' in the most unprecedented manner through seemingly... -
Plough Quarterly No. 28 - Creatures: The Nature Issue Adam Nicolson 9781636080390
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33When we read the book of nature, what do we read there? "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all," says a... -
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment: Understanding Human Being by Nancy K Dess 9780367560478
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.25This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the concept of 'human being' in the most unprecedented manner through seemingly... -
On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology by Eloise Meneses 9780367884826
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropology's exclusive rootedness in the ontology of secularism. When considered with the... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
Booksplease Price: €16.16This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer,... -
Facing Up to Mortality: Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations by Daniel Liechty 9781793655424
Booksplease Price: €101.92Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with... -
A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures by Otto Rank
RRP: €159.46Booksplease Price: €126.77A leading disciple and confidant of Freud, Otto Rank revolutionized the field of psychoanalytic theory in The Trauma of Birth (1924). In this book, Rank proposed that the child's pre-Oedipal... -
Politics in the Human Interest: Applying Sociology in the Real World by William Du Bois 9780739117712
Booksplease Price: €53.26Politics in the Human Interest presents the striking proposition that by paying attention to what's been learned about human behavior, we can develop a political agenda that is in the human interest... -
Luke Karamazov by Conrad Hilberry 9780814342886
Booksplease Price: €26.97Luke Karamazov is the true story of two brothers who were convicted of serial murders. In 1964, Luke Karamozov (nee Ralph Searl) confessed to killing five men over a three-month period; following in... -
Controlling Animals: Vain Attempts at Immortality in Three Works of Fiction by Michael Paul Reichstein 9783631916742
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €44.40Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality... -
Studies of Life Positioning: A New Sociocultural Approach to Psychobiography Jack Martin 9781032610474
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.25This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography.Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they... -
A Humanities Approach to the Psychology of Personhood by Jeff Sugarman 9780367278359
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92In this set of insightful essays, the concept of the psychological humanities is defined and explored. A clear rationale is provided for its necessity in the study and understanding of the individual... -
Death, Dying, and Bereavement in a Changing World Alan Kemp 9781138301528
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €99.17In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing... -
Death, Grief, and Mourning by John Samuel Stephenson 9781416573562
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.66How do Americans cope with death? Do our feelings about dying influence the way we live? How are our ideas of death different from those of our ancestors? These questions and others are addressed in... -
Politics in the Human Interest: Applying Sociology in the Real World by William Du Bois 9780739117705
Booksplease Price: €108.75Politics in the Human Interest presents the striking proposition that by paying attention to what's been learned about human behavior, we can develop a political agenda that is in the human interest... -
Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy Robert Kramer 9780197698273
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.62Once considered Sigmund Freud's designated heir, Otto Rank was an interdisciplinary thinker and prodigious author of twenty-two books. After being expelled from Freud's inner circle in 1926--due to... -
Sigmund Freud: His Life and Mind by Helen W. Puner
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €136.48Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic... -
Necromedia by Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695713
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to... -
Necromedia by Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695706
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €70.42In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to... -
A Dream That Interprets Itself by Otto Rank 9781800132054
Booksplease Price: €33.33Sigmund Freud hired Otto Rank as his secretary and funded Rank's PhD in literature at the University of Vienna. In 1910, at age 26, Rank published 'A Dream That Interprets Itself'. Freud could not... -
Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation by Kirk J. Schneider 9780765706652
Booksplease Price: €52.73Awakening to Awe is a self-help meditation on an alternative-and growing-spiritual movement. This is a movement comprised of people who refuse the "quick-fix" model for healing, whether that model... -
Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice Donald L. Carveth (York University, Toronto, Canada) 9781138560727
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.16A video of Don Carveth discussing the book and its subject matter can be accessed using the following web URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7tGq0uEtUSince the classical Freudian and ego... -
Death, Dying, and Bereavement in a Changing World Alan R. Kemp 9781032867427
Booksplease Price: €74.62In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan R. Kemp takes on the central question of mortality: the ubiquitous presence of death despite the very human propensity to deny its relevance to oneself,...