Western Attitudes toward Death

Philippe Aries

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975

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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

ISBN-13
9780801817625
ISBN-10
0801817625
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1975
Publication date
1975-09-26
Pages
128
Dimensions
133x203x10
Weight
164