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Sheathing the Bodkin: Combating Suicide - A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Sheathing the Bodkin: Combating Suicide - A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Open Agenda Publishing inc.
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ACS4
Année de parution:
2021
ISBN-13: 9781771700597
Description:
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and poet, author and historian commentator Jennifer Michael Hecht. After intriguing details about how she combines writing poetry, doing scholarly history and public writing, this wide-ranging conversation movingly embellishes upon Jennifer Michael Hecht's book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, which is an intellectual and cultural history of the most persuasive arguments against suicide from the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as Albert Camus.



This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, ..Or To Lend A Hand, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:

I. Different Hats - And how to combine them

II. Facing the Unthinkable - Confronting suicide

III. Historical Examinations - A litany of intriguing insights

IV. Suffering - Worth recognizing

V. Meaning and Mattering - The benefits of faith

About Ideas Roadshow Conversations:

This book is part of a series of 100 Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research.
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