Culture, suicide, and the human condition / edited by Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Honkasalo, Marja-Liisa.

Tuominen, Miira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Social aspects.

Suicide.

Suicide--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent

Contents:

Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Varieties of Suicide; Part I. Suicide; Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology; Chapter 2. When It Is Worth the Trouble to Die; Part II. Ancient and Medieval Approaches to Suicide; Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible""; Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women; Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages; Part III. Morality, Politics, and Violence

Chapter 6. ""She Kissed Death with a Smile""Chapter 7. ""When We Stop Living, We Also Stop Dying""; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782382355

1782382356

OCLC:

887925208