(Read free ebook) Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide
✿ Lisa Lieberman ✿
| #1886996 in Books | Ivan R. Dee | 2003-04-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.12 x.81 x5.98l,.88 | File Name: 1566634962 | 192 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| An concise, elegant book with CONTENT! packs a punch in 153 pages|By Mercedes Mcvey|This author is looking at the cultural meaning/history of suicide,and uses many examples from literature to support her writing. I had never really thought about people's attitudes regarding it, the people who do it, and society's response to it, and how they impact each other. It is a very u|From Publishers Weekly|Society sees suicide as a symptom of insanity and helplessness, the last desperate resort of the mentally or terminally ill. This intellectually rich meditation seeks to reclaim suicide as a "meaningful gesture," both an expression of per
At heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority. How is it, then, that the act of suicide–one with defiant political implications–has come to be viewed as the last refuge of the self-destructive victim? In Leaving You, Lisa Lieberman explores the puzzle of this reigning perception of suicide. Drawing on diverse sources, from biblical stories to Romantic novels, philosophical theories, and psychiatric di...
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