The politics of being mortal

The politics of being mortal / Alfred G. Killilea.

While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the potential political repercussions of a wider acceptance of mortality in American society. Alfred Killi...

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Main Author: Killilea, Alfred G., 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [1988]
Subjects:
Death > Political aspects > United States.
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Social values.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
Death > Political aspects
Death > Social aspects
Social values
Tod
Soziologie
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Mort > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Valeurs sociales.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Death as a paradox
  • Surmounting the denial of death
  • The denial of death in the nuclear era
  • Accepting death: the benefits of human vulnerability
  • Death and politics: the clash with capitalism
  • Death and politics: the road to narcissism and back
  • Death and enlivening democracy
  • Accepting mortality and rejecting nuclear peril
  • The limits of self-interest.

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