Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
Summary
A multidisciplinary work that argues human civilization is a massive "immortality project" designed to distract us from our primal fear of our own mortality.
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Historical Context & Significance
A posthumous win; Becker died of cancer just months before the award. The book remains a foundational text in existential psychology and "Terror Management Theory."