On the shelf
The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
1 episode · 1 guest · last mentioned 17 Aug 2026
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Who brought it up
- Mentioned
Brian Greene in the episode with Brian Greene
About the book
A Pulitzer Prize-winning work of cultural anthropology and psychology. Becker synthesizes thinkers like Kierkegaard and Freud to argue that the fear of death is a primary driver of human behavior, leading to the creation of culture and heroic self-projects to deny our mortality.
