Ernest Becker
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Cultural anthropologist (1924 to 1974) whose The Denial of Death (1973) argued that much of human culture and heroism is a defence against the terror of death.
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The fear of death is a universal of the human condition (opens korrents.com)
“But this argument leaves untouched the fact that the fear of death is indeed a universal in the human condition.”
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Society is a codified hero system, a living myth that gives human life significance (opens korrents.com)
“Society itself is a codified hero system, which means that society everywhere is a living myth of the significance of human life, a defiant creation of meaning.”
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The fear of death is a universal of the human condition (opens korrents.com)