Becker
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Books
A Hopeful Reminder: You’re Going to Die
Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on…
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World
Howard S. Becker, Who Looked at Society With a Fresh Eye, Dies at 95
A sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on matters as diverse as deviance, art making and marijuana use, and later found…