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On Suicide : A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery (1999, Hardcover)

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Language: English. Number of Pages: 192. Weight: 0.84 lbs. Publication Date: 1999-07-01. Publisher: Indiana University Press.

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PublisherIndiana University Press

ISBN-100253335639

ISBN-139780253335630

eBay Product ID (ePID)1006886

Product Key Features

Book TitleOn Suicide : a Discourse on Voluntary Death

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGerontology, Death & Dying, Judaism / General, Suicide

Publication Year1999

GenreReligion, Social Science, Psychology

AuthorJean Amery

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-053904

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal362.28

Table Of ContentTranslator's Preface Translator's Introduction Preface I. Before the Leap II. How Natural is Death? III. To Lay Hands on Oneself IV. Belonging to Oneself V. The Road to the Open Notes

SynopsisOn Suicide is neither a defense of suicide nor an invitation to assisted suicide, but an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide. It is also a strident defense of the freedom of the individual and a plea for the recognition of the fact that we belong to ourselves before belonging to another person, or an institution, nation, or religion, and that our right to choose to end our life can have priority over social entanglements and biological destiny. Book jacket., "... a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world... " --Kirkus Reviews Jean Am ry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death., But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death., " . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " --Kirkus Reviews Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death., " . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " ?Kirkus Reviews Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.

LC Classification NumberHV6545.A5713 1999