Western Attitudes toward Death
Douban
ISBN: 9780801817625
author:
Philippe Ariès
translator:
Patricia Ranum
publishing house:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
publication date: 1975
-8
price: USD 19.95
number of pages: 128
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Philippe Ariès Patricia Ranum
overview
"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