The Politics of Being Mortal /

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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 Killi...

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Main Author: Killilea, Alfred G., 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [1988]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Valeurs sociales.
Mort > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Soziologie
Tod
Social values.
Death > Social aspects.
Death > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Social Values
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Death > Political aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Death as a paradox
  • Surmounting the denial of death
  • The denial of death in the nuclear era
  • Accepting death: the benefits of human vulnerability
  • Death and politics: the clash with capitalism
  • Death and politics: the road to narcissism and back
  • Death and enlivening democracy
  • Accepting mortality and rejecting nuclear peril
  • The limits of self-interest.

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