Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801817625
- Reading Time
- ~2h 14min
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present is a book by Philippe Ariès. It has 128 pages.
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Ariès 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
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Ariès 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
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Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present was written by Philippe Ariès.