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Stay - A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It - Softcover

Hecht, Jennifer Michae

 
9780300209365: Stay - A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300209363 ISBN 13: 9780300209365
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.
 
From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our “secular age” in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment’s insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jennifer Michael Hecht is a historian of science and culture and a poet. She has written seven books, including the best-selling Doubt: A History, the story of unbelief across the world. Hecht teaches at The New School and lives in Brooklyn.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300209363
ISBN 13 
9780300209365
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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