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Western attitudes toward death

Paperback • 1975 • English

Western attitudes toward death

By Phillipe Ariés

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Ariés 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.

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9780801817625

Published year

1975

Language

English

Original title

Western attitudes toward death

Format

Paperback

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