Western Attitudes toward Death
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Western Attitudes toward Death by Philippe Aris
Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.
Aries 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 secretNewsweek An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Aries's work. -- Robert Darnton New York Review of Books 1974
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801817625 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801817625 |
| Title | Western Attitudes toward Death |
| Author | Philippe Aris |
| Series | The Johns Hopkins Symposia In Comparative History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1975-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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