Escape from Evil [Paperback]

Ernest Becker (1924-1974) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for "The Denial of Death". Becker was a teacher of anthropology, sociology and contemporary psychological thought at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. In this book "Escape From Evil", published posthumously, Becker proposes that the natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image is the cause of human evil.

According to Anais Nin, "a profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.”