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Podcast: Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
Episode: 9: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meaning of Tradition
Description: Pete and Susannah discuss Kelsey Osgood’s piece on Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death. How did Becker, as a Jew struggling through secularism, face the fact of our slavery to the fear of death - and how did his refusal of the cold comforts of distraction open the way for real meaning to emerge?Then, the hosts speak with friend of the pod Sohrab Ahmari, about his recent book The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.The traditions we are raised to respect shape us. How did the birth...