To: 2MAR$ who wrote (16125 ) 1/17/2004 9:56:08 PM From: briskit Respond to ...from the introduction to Denial of Death, and this will be the last. I would affectionately describe the author as bodacious (bold and audacious). Very interesting effort at synthesis of existentialism, psychoanalytic thought and religious thought starting with Kierkegaard. One last quote, though rather lengthy (for the same low price, however!!). This is the conclusion to his introduction, FWIW.Life Against Death and by Robert Jay Lifton in his Revolutionary Immortality. If we accept these suggestions, then we must admit that we are dealing with the universal human problem; and we must be prepared to probe into it as honestly as possible, to be as shocked by the self-revelation of man as the best thought will allow. Let us pick this thought up with Kierkegaard and take it through Freud, to see where this stripping down of the last 150 years will lead us. If the penetrating honesty of a few books could immediately change the world, then the five authors just mentioned would already have shaken the nations to their foundations. But since everyone is carrying on as though the vital truths about man did not yet exist, it is necessary to add still another weight in the scale of human self-exposure. For twenty-five hundred years we have hoped and believed that if mankind could reveal itself to itself, could widely come to know its own cherished motives, then somehow it would tilt the balance of things in its own favor.
