The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man; 2nd Edition

Ernest Becker

Mar 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Chris Sorensen

About this audiobook

The Birth and Death of Meaning uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.

About the author

After receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from Syracuse University, Ernest Becker (1924-1974) taught at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State College, and Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and a foundation that bears his name-The Ernest Becker Foundation.

Chris Sorensen is a veteran audiobook narrator with over 160 titles to his name. He has received three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and his recording of Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix was selected as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2010 by AudioFile magazine. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the APA.