The Ernest Becker Reader

by Ernest Becker and Daniel Liechty

Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America's turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social anthropology and driven by a transcending curiosity about human motivations, Becker doggedly pursued his basic research question, "What makes people act the way they do?" Dissatisfied with what he saw as narrowly fragmented methods in the contemporary social sciences and impelled by a belief that humankind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295984708
• ISBN13: 9780295984704
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher