Western Attitudes toward Death

From the Middle Ages to the Present

Philippe Ariès (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

1975
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-1762-5 (ISBN)

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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