Ernest Becker -- The Birth and Death of Meaning

[anan_ab]

I finished Ernest Becker's The Birth and Death of Meaning today and have logged my favorite quotes.

If the reader gets a feeling of pathos in all this, it is only logical: after all the humanization process is one in which we exchange a natural, animal sense of our basic worth, for a contrived, symbolic one. Then we are constantly forced to harangue

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[hostirad]

Thanks so much for this. I've got so many things on my reading list that I simply can't read everything that I would like. It is very useful when people provide summaries or excerpts of books I would read if I had more time.

My graduate school mentor put it this way: "My opera education consisted of reading the liner notes that accompanied records."

[anan_ab]

Sure. My graduate advisor suggests that the world would be a better place if everyone were to read Becker. And as I read his work, I can see why.