# The Birth and Death of Meaning

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- Book: [The Birth and Death of Meaning](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-becker/the-birth-and-death-of-meaning) ([The Birth and Death of Meaning.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-becker/the-birth-and-death-of-meaning.md))
- Authors: [Ernest Becker](https://www.bookquiver.com/ernest-becker)
- Publisher: Free Press
- ISBN: 978-00-2902-190-3
- Published: 1971-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.