Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present: 3 (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) - Softcover

Ariès, Philippe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801817625 ISBN 13: 9780801817625

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975

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Book by Aris Philippe

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Críticas:

"Ariès 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 secret."

(Newsweek)

"An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Ariès's work."

(Robert Darnton New York Review of Books)

Reseña del editor:

AriA]s 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 secret. -- Newsweek

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0801817625
• ISBN 13: 9780801817625
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128