Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present / Edition 1

by Philippe Ariès

Overview

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900801817624
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1975
Series:	The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Philippe Ariès (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the seminal study that launched historical scholarship on childhood and family life in the Western world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Tamed Death
Chapter 2. One's Own Death
Chapter 3. Thy Death
Chapter 4. Forbidden Death
Index

Editorial Reviews

An astounding story, told with the incisiveness and mastery characteristic of Aries' work. New York Review of Books

Robert Darnton

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

From the Publisher

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.

New York Review of Books - Robert Darnton

"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