Terror Management Theory

More than 100 years ago, the American philosopher William James wrote that the knowledge that we must die is "the worm at the core" of the human condition - a universally shared fear that informs all our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage.

Here's a description for The Weather Inside: The Weather Inside: Five Ways to Live With More of Yourself You already know how to survive. You have been doing it for years. But survival and living are not the same thing, and somewhere in the gap between them, you left parts of yourself behind. The Weather Inside is a book about getting those parts back. Drawing on the philosophy of Marguerite Young, one of the most visionary and underread writers of the twentieth century, this book offers five frameworks for the kind of inner life most self-help books never reach: the self that contains ...