The politics of being mortal / Alfred G. Killilea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Killilea, Alfred G., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects--United States.

Death.

Death--Political aspects--United States.

Social values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the potential political repercussions of a wider acceptance of mortality in American society. Alfred Killilea's strikingly original book revolves around a central irony: though the subject of death has been largely shunned in American culture lest it rob life of meaning and contentment, confronting death may be crucial to enable us as individuals and as a society to affirm life, even to survive, in this

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Death as a Paradox; 2. Surmounting the Denial of Death; 3. The Denial of Death in the Nuclear Era; 4. Accepting Death: The Benefits of Human Vulnerability; 5. Death and Politics: The Clash with Capitalism; 6. Death and Politics: The Road to Narcissism; 7. Death and Enlivening Democracy; 8. Accepting Mortality and Rejecting Nuclear Peril; 9. The Limits of Self-Interest; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [159]-165.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813163284

0813163285

OCLC:

900345206