'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, GuardianWinner 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 r...

In De ontkenning van de dood (1973) pakt Becker het probleem van de grootste leugen van het menselijk bestaan aan: de weigering om de eigen sterfelijkheid te onderkennen. De gehele beschaving lijkt zichzelf namelijk te beschermen tegen het besef van de dood als einde van het leven. Volgens Becker leven we behalve in onze tastbare wereld ook in een symbolische, waarin zich de overtuiging van onze onsterfelijkheid bevindt. We scheppen om herinnerd te worden, om deel uit te maken van iets waa...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker.Winner 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 t...

Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America’s turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social anthropology and driven by a transcending curiosity about human motivations, Becker doggedly pursued his basic research question, "What makes people act the way they do?" Dissatisfied with what he saw as narrowly fragmented methods in the contemporary social sciences and impelled by a belief that humankind more than ever needed a disciplined, rational...

本書為研究日本江戶時期遊廓文化的核心文獻之一。作者約瑟夫．恩斯特．德．貝克以冷靜的觀察者視角，詳細爬梳了關於吉原遊廓的歷史脈絡、社會結構與運作機制。書中不僅紀錄了該區域的空間佈局與日常規律，更深入剖析了遊廓在江戶社會中的特殊地位，以及其與當時經濟、法律體系的關聯性。 這不僅是一部關於特定場所的歷史紀錄，更是一份關於日本近代化過程中，社會邊緣與主流價值如何共存的珍貴檔案。對於研究日本社會史、城市空間史或近代文化史的讀者而言，本書提供了極具參考價值的視點。透過嚴謹的紀實筆觸，作者將那座不夜之城背後的組織邏輯與文化底蘊，精確地呈現在當代讀者面前。

The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging),Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller hel...

"Farvel til våbnene" er delvis skrevet over Hemingways egne oplevelser som ambulancefører på den italienske front. Den amerikanske løjtnant Frederic Henry møder den engelske sygeplejerske, Cathrine Barkley, og da Henry bliver såret kommer de ved et tilfælde til at være på det samme hospital i Milano. Her oplever de en fantastisk tid sammen, hvor de kan nyde livet og hinanden (i hemmelighed). Det bliver den diametrale modsætning af forholdene i krigen. Henry skal dog tilbage til fronten, me...