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Demonstrates how an unconscious fear of death motivates nearly all human goals, behaviors, and cultures, examining the role of mortality awareness in prompting social unrest and war.
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Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
2016, Penguin Books, Limited
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0141981628 9780141981628
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Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
2015, Penguin Books, Limited
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0141981636 9780141981635
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The worm at the core: on the role of death in life
2015, Random House
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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
May 12, 2015, Tantor Audio
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1494558327 9781494558321
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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
May 12, 2015, PENGUIN GROUP, imusti
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0241217253 9780241217252
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Managing the terror of death
The scheme of things
Self-esteem: the foundation of fortitude
Homo mortalis: from primate to human
Literal immortality
Symbolic immortality
The anatomy of human destructiveness
Body and soul: an uneasy alliance
Death near and far
Cracks in the shields
Living with death.
Edition Notes
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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