The Birth and Death of Meaning, Paperback - Ernest Becker

Reducere. The Birth and Death of Meaning, Paperback

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In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ernest BeckerFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the...

Reducere. In 1980, two men sit down to record a conversation. They have much in common: both are passionate, articulate thinkers. But their differences are j...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Peter StanfordIllustration(s): 5 Illustrations, black and white; 21 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 2...

Reducere. Aniela Jeffe explores the subjective world of inner experience. In so doing, she follows the path of the pioneering Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung, w...

Reducere. In 1980, two men sit down to record a conversation. They have much in common: both are passionate, articulate thinkers. But their differences are j...

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What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has...

A practical and inspirational guide to modern pilgrimages: the art of mindful walks to a place of meaning.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor...

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From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-b...

Reducere. When God died, art was born. With Christ's crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, the human imagination began to be remade. In Bezalel's Body: T...

A collection of significant lectures and essays by Karl Koenig, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, arguing that the greatest part of humankind exists beyo...

How does history relate to the past? In contrast to the claim that the past for history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and re...

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This book is a five-year ethnographic study of the lesbian culture built at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The study explores the constructio...

The influential work of speculative biology-and a key document in posthumanist studies-now available in a new, accurate English translation.

This book uses history and archaeology to examine the origins of major monotheistic religions: describing the contexts of times, places and societi...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Bruce Kennard-SimpsonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 344Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x ...

In 1900, most Americans gave birth and died at home, with minimal medical intervention. By contrast, most Americans today begin and end their lives...

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother tr...

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Genevieve Trimble's remarkable story of Afton Villa began with a tragedy. In 1963, fire ravaged the forty-room Victorian Gothic plantation home on ...

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In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spai...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was trie...

Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment ...

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The Trial and Death of Socrates includes the four Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.

Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. This book takes us from the band's inception through to the recording an...

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Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

Reducere. * “The most complete and successful biography of the Fuehrer available for this audience.”—SLJ, starred review Many people believe Hitler was the p...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): T. H. MeyerIllustration(s): halftonesTranslator: Matthew BartonNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2...