Ernest Becker vs. Simone de Beauvoir
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ernest Becker
1924 – 1974
Literature
United States
Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death.
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"Maslow was too broad-minded and sober to imagine that being-cognition did not have an underside; but he didn’t go far enough toward pointing out what a dangerou…"
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Simone de Beauvoir
1908 – 1986
Philosophy
France
Existentialism
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
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"Time is beginning to flow again."
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Connections
Simone de Beauvoir was influenced by Ernest Becker
Shared era: 1924 – 1974
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