From 1993-2023, the Ernest Becker Foundation advanced the understanding of the role of death denial in everyday life, so that we might live together more peacefully.

2012年7月24日 · The Ernest Becker Foundation (closed, as of 2023) advanced the understanding of death anxiety so that we may live together more peacefully.

Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary thinker and writer. He wrote several books on human motivation and behavior, most notably the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Denial of Death .

Ernest Becker’s grounding in cultural anthropology was the platform from which he saw the potential for unearthing, bringing together, and articulating a new interdisciplinary construct he called a “science of man,” which would enhance our understanding of the “human problem.”

Terror Management Theory (TMT) was developed in 1986 by social psychologists Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon based upon Ernest Becker’s ideas.

From 1993-2023, the Ernest Becker Foundation advanced the understanding of the role of death denial in everyday life, so that we might live together more peacefully.

2014年10月1日 · “The denial of death” is a phrase from Ernest Becker, and the title of his most famous book, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Becker’s book focuses on how we human beings develop strategies to fend off awareness of our mortality and vulnerability and to escape into the feeling that we’re immortal.

From 1993-2023, the Ernest Becker Foundation advanced the understanding of the role of death denial in everyday life, so that we might live together more peacefully.

At the beginning of the first Gulf War, I began a search about “why are humans violent.” In 1993 or ’94, I discovered The Ernest Becker Foundation and met Neil at a “Love of Violence” Conference, a treasure in my own back yard.

From 1993-2023, the Ernest Becker Foundation advanced the understanding of the role of death denial in everyday life, so that we might live together more peacefully.