The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

by Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, et al.

Book Overview

A transformative, fascinating theory--based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research--reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die "the worm at the core" of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400067472
• ISBN13: 9781400067473
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"