After Syracuse, he became a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC (Canada).īecker came to the recognition that psychological inquiry inevitably comes to a dead end beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche. The first of his nine books, Zen, A Rational Critique (1961) was based on his doctoral dissertation. In his early 30s, he returned to Syracuse University to pursue graduate studies in cultural anthropology. Upon graduation he joined the US Embassy in Paris as an administrative officer.
After completing military service, in which he served in the infantry and helped to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, he attended Syracuse University in New York. Ernest Becker was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer.īecker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrant parents.
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