An Interview With Sheldon Solomon, PhD On Terror
I am most grateful to Patrick Shen and Greg Bennick, who produced Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality. Their movie provided a direction toward many of the views about the Middle East that I hold today, and they pointed me toward the leaders of the research into the thought of Ernest Becker, much of which is now described, in abbreviated form, as Terror Management Theory (“TMT”). Becker’s watershed book was Denial of Death, first published in 1973. It won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1974. It was made infamous by President Bill Clinton, who said that he carried it with him on his honeymoon. Professor of Psychology Sheldon Solomon, at Skidmore College, is one of the principal investigators of this research. This interview with Sheldon Solomon, and another with his colleague Jeffrey Greenberg, Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, was conducted shortly after seeing Flight from Death for the first time. Here’s how She...