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History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture

Minois, Georges 2001 ohns Hopkins University Press,400p.

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■Minois, Georges 2001 History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture,ohns Hopkins University Press,400p. ISBN-10:0801866472 ISBN-13:978-0801866470 $30.00 [amazon][kinokuniya] ※ s01

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In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and valuesーattitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was acceptableーeven heroicー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 reemerged 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 nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, law, philosophy, and literature. Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex historyーthe emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.

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1 Tradition: A Repressed Question
2 The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Stifled
3 The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt-Free

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