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自殺の思想史 : 抗って生きるために

Title
  • 自殺の思想史 : 抗って生きるために / ジェニファー・マイケル・ヘクト著 ; 月沢李歌子訳.
  • Jisatsu no shisōshi : aragatte ikiru tame ni / Jenifā Maikeru Hekuto cho ; Tsukisawa Rikako yaku.
Author
Hecht, Jennifer Michael, 1965-
Publication
  • 東京 : みすず書房, 2022.
  • Tōkyō : Misuzu Shobō, 2022.

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Additional Authors
  • 月沢李歌子
  • Tsukisawa, Rikako
Description
248, 25 pages; 20 cm
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.
Uniform Title
Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it Japanese.
Alternative Title
Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it
Subject
  • Suicide
  • Suicide > Prevention
  • Communities
  • Suicide > Prévention
  • Communauté
  • suicides
  • Jisatsu
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 1-25 (second group))
ISBN
  • 9784622090694
  • 4622090694
OCLC
  • on1347721044
  • SCSB-14680372
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library