Western Attitudes toward Death
From the Middle Ages to the Present
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1975
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-1762-5 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-1762-5 (ISBN)
AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek
Philippe Ariès (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the seminal study that launched historical scholarship on childhood and family life in the Western world.
Preface
Chapter 1. Tamed Death
Chapter 2. One's Own Death
Chapter 3. Thy Death
Chapter 4. Forbidden Death
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.9.1975 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History |
| Übersetzer | Patricia Ranum |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 132 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 159 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-1762-5 / 0801817625 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-1762-5 / 9780801817625 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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