Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies by Zygmunt Bauman

Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies by Zygmunt Bauman

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This is an exploration, from a sociological point of view, of what is still a taboo subject in modern societies: death and dying. In a sustained and gripping argument, it puts forward a theory explaining the individual, cultural, and institutional strategies for dealing with human mortality.

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Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies by Zygmunt Bauman

This is an exploration, from a sociological point of view, of what is still a taboo subject in modern societies: death and dying. In a sustained and gripping argument, it puts forward a theory explaining the individual, cultural, and institutional strategies for dealing with human mortality.
Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He is the author of many books, including Modernity and the Holocaust and Modernity and Ambivalence.
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ISBN 13 9780804721646
ISBN 10 0804721645
Title Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies
Author Zygmunt Bauman
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Year published 1992-12-01
Number of pages 216
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