Sheldon Solomon: Ernest Becker and The Denial of Death

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The Ernest Becker Foundation (EBF) seeks to illuminate how the unconscious denial of mortality profoundly influences human behavior, giving rise to acts of hate and violence as well as noble, altruistic striving. The goal of the Foundation is to foster a deeper understanding of our creative, heroic, often destructive quest to ensure immortality. To achieve this understanding, the EBF supports relevant dialogue, education, scholarship, and practical applications.

We are devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on our brutality toward one another. Drawing on Becker's writings, especially The Birth and Death of Meaning (1971), his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death (1973) and Escape From Evil (1975), and now also The Ernest Becker Reader, the EBF supports research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, human spiritual commitments and social action.

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