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History of Suicide

  • ISBN 9780801866470
  • Author: Minois, Georges (Georges Minois, editions Fayard)
  • Publ Date: 2001-03-15
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  • Binding: Paperback / softback

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In this history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values - attitudes toward life and death, duty and honour, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was acceptable - even heroic - under some circumstances. With the rise of Christianity, however, suicide was unequivocally condemned as self-murder and an insult to God. With the Renaissance and its renewed interest in classical culture, suicide re-emerged as a philosophical issue. Minois finds examples of changing attitudes in key Renaissance texts by Bacon, Montaigne, Sidney, Donne and Shakespeare. By 1700, the term "suicide" had replaced "self-murder" and the subject began to interest the emerging scientific disciplines. Minois follows the ongoing evaluation of suicide through the Enlightenment and the Romantic periods, and he examines attitudes that emerge in 19th- and 20th-century science, law, philosophy and literature. Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history - the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.
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