ISBN: 9780300209365 - stay - a history of suicide and the philosophies against it: a history of suicide and the arguments against it (19 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. This book recounts individual suicide cases from the Bible and ancient Greeks to the present day and analyzes how ideas about suicide have changed over time.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 280 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. pp. 280.

Zustand: New. Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. This book recounts individual suicide cases from the Bible and ancient Greeks to the present day and analyzes how ideas about suicide have changed over time. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 316. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive 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.…

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: New. Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. This book recounts individual suicide cases from the Bible and ancient Greeks to the present day and analyzes how ideas about suicide have changed over time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Stay | A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It | Jennifer Michael Hecht | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2015 | Yale University Press | EAN 9780300209365 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …