Birth and Death of Meaning

by Ernest Becker

Overview

Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780029021903
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	09/01/1971
Edition description:	REISSUE
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

After receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from Syracuse University, Dr. Ernest Becker (1924–1974) taught at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State College, and Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and a foundation that bears his name—The Ernest Becker Foundation.