Denial of Death Existential and longtime friend Raymond Aron

and longtime friend Raymond Aron

a courtroom drama

an illuminating introduction and endnotes by the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter

John Steinbeck returns to the setting of Tortilla Flat to create another evocative portrait of life as it is lived by those who unabashedly put the highest value on the intangibles--human warmth

Denial of Death Existential and longtime friend Raymond AronWinner 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 predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates