The Resource Stay : a history of suicide and the arguments against it, Jennifer Michael Hecht
Stay : a history of suicide and the arguments against it, Jennifer Michael Hecht
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 264 pages
- Note
- "Hardcover edition published as Stay: a history of suicide and the philosophies against it."
- Contents
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- The ancient world
- Religion rejects suicide
- To be or not to be: new questions in the rise of modernism
- Secular philosophy defends suicide
- The argument of community
- Modern social science on community and influence
- Hope for our future selves
- The twentieth century's two major voices on suicide
- Suffering and happiness
- Modern philosophical conversations
- Isbn
- 9780300209365
- Label
- Stay : a history of suicide and the arguments against it
- Title
- Stay
- Title remainder
- a history of suicide and the arguments against it
- Statement of responsibility
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hecht, Jennifer Michael
- Dewey number
- 179.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6545
- LC item number
- .H372 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2013 J-863
- WM 11.1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Suicide
- Suicide
- Communities
- Label
- Stay : a history of suicide and the arguments against it, Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Note
- "Hardcover edition published as Stay: a history of suicide and the philosophies against it."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- Contents
- The ancient world -- Religion rejects suicide -- To be or not to be: new questions in the rise of modernism -- Secular philosophy defends suicide -- The argument of community -- Modern social science on community and influence -- Hope for our future selves -- The twentieth century's two major voices on suicide -- Suffering and happiness -- Modern philosophical conversations
- Control code
- ocn852488244
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xii, 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300209365
- Lccn
- 2013016107
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)852488244
- Label
- Stay : a history of suicide and the arguments against it, Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Note
- "Hardcover edition published as Stay: a history of suicide and the philosophies against it."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The ancient world -- Religion rejects suicide -- To be or not to be: new questions in the rise of modernism -- Secular philosophy defends suicide -- The argument of community -- Modern social science on community and influence -- Hope for our future selves -- The twentieth century's two major voices on suicide -- Suffering and happiness -- Modern philosophical conversations
- Control code
- ocn852488244
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xii, 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300209365
- Lccn
- 2013016107
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)852488244
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