Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (Hardcover)

Introduction: Generative Mortality Anxiety: An Organizing Principle for the Social Sciences and Humanities by Daniel Liechty Psychological Reflections A Perilous Leap from Becker's Theorizing to Empirical Science: Terror Management Theory and Research by Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski and Sheldon Solomon Inflicting Evil as an Alternative to the Dread of Dying: An Independent Test of Generative Death Anxiety by C. Fred Alford Forgiveness: From Heroic Illusion to Human Homecoming by Steen Halling Cognition Creates Character: Neurotic Styles by Daniel Goleman Waging War Against Death by Gavin de Becker Psychotherapeutic Reflections Death Anxiety and the Psychotherapeutic Process by James B. McCarthy Three Forms of Death Anxiety by Robert Langs The Paradoxical Self: An Expansive View of Death Anxiety by Kirk J. Schneider The Hero and the Addict: Reflections on the Apprehension of Death by Jeffrey Kauffman Death Anxiety in the Treatment of Children in Poverty by Claude Barbre Social Scientific Reflections The Transcendent Dimesion in Social Science by James A. Aho The Industrial Organization of Anxiety by Kirby Farrell Death Anxiety in Medical Education and Practice by Neil Elgee Ernst Becker's Anti-Idealist Theory of Communication: Death, Drama, and Purgation by W. Thomas Duncanson Our Existential Vulnerability to Toxic Leaders by Jean Lipman-Blumen Philosophical Reflections Ernst Becker and Emmanuel levinas: Surprising Convergences by Richard Colledge Interrogated by the Mortal: Kenneth Burke and Ernst Becker by C. Allen Carter What Does a Body Know? Analysis of Violence in Ernest Becker and Julia Kristeva by Martha Reineke Denial of Death in the Dissolution of the Modern Self by Walter Truett Anderson The Denial of No-Self: A Buddhist Perspective by David R. Loy Religious Reflections The Enemy as Enemy of God: Psycho-Spiritual Processes in the Ritual Transformation of the Enemy by Sam Keen Index