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Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

Philippe Ariès

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: August 01, 1975

ISBN: 0801817625

ISBN 13: 9780801817625

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

Philippe Ariès

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: August 01, 1975

ISBN: 0801817625

ISBN 13: 9780801817625

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