从历史的角度来看，现代人都是孤儿——当宗教已然衰落，而取代宗教的科学，又无法提供令人满意的生命意义，作者为现代人碎片化的心灵找出重新整合之道——练习直面死亡，在畏惧死亡的阵痛中让生命不断更新

从历史的角度来看，现代人都是孤儿——当宗教已然衰落，而取代宗教的科学，又无法提供令人满意的生命意义，作者为现代人碎片化的心灵找出重新整合之道——练习直面死亡，在畏惧死亡的阵痛中让生命不断更新

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 the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nat...(展开全部)

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 the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nat...(展开全部)

正如作者贝克尔所说：“并非自然的动物本性，而恰恰是对惊恐（panic）的掩饰，让我们活在丑陋之中。”一直以来，罕有作者这样真诚的努力，向世人揭示一个颠覆性的真理：死亡并不必然产生恐惧，然而，恐惧的人生却虽生犹死。作者进一步深刻指明：人们常常用欲望来掩饰恐惧，殊不知欲望恰恰是恐惧的结果，如此文饰，相当于饮鸩止渴。因此，吾人别无他途，唯有直面恐惧，向死而生。

A comprehensive account of denial viewed not only psychoanalytically but also philosophically.

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.The Death of the Heart, a story o...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白•鲍恩 Elizabeth Bowen，1899—1973 英国小说家，以其关于战时伦敦生活的小说而闻名。鲍恩于1899年出生于都柏林，中学时期就读肯特郡的唐屋中学。在伦敦艺术学校学习了一段时间后，她决定开始写作。1923年，出版短篇小说集《遭遇》（Encounters）。1937年，鲍恩成为爱尔兰文学院的一员。“二战”期间，鲍恩在伦敦的英国信息部工作，这段经历帮助她写出了关于战时伦敦生活最伟大的作品《炎热的一天》（In The Heat of the Day），1948年，她被授予大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。 鲍恩一生创作了十部长篇小说、七十多个短篇小说，以及大量的文学评论和随笔。她的作品洞察入微，主要关注英格兰和爱尔兰中上阶层人群的情感和彼此之间的微妙关系。她早期创作的小说以机智和嘲弄著称，二十世纪三十年代之后的作品则表现出一种悲剧情感。...(展开全部)

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness...(展开全部)

In this impassioned critique of America's growing disengagement from civic life and ideals, Drum Major Institute Executive Director Andrea Batista Schlesinger dissects the forcible erosion of our youngest generation's capacity for inquiry and provides recommendations.