Escape from Evil

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world.

“A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin

“An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek

“Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times

• The Denial of Death
• The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
• Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development
• The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
• Beyond Psychology
• The Ernest Becker Reader
• Psychology and the Human Dilemma
• Escape from Freedom
• The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology
• Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History