000			03140cam a2200469 i 4500
001			ocn852488244
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093345.0
008			130618s2013 ctu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2013016107
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780300186086
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDX _dKCP _dBDX _dYDXCP _dUOK _dCDX _dVP@ _dHF9 _dNLM _dUKMGB _dVET _dOCLCF _dCHVBK _dTULIB _dBKL _dTOH _dBTCTA _dVF$
016	7		_a101621103 _2DNLM
016	7		_a016536506 _2Uk
019			_a862032721 _a898526590
020			_a9780300186086 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a0300186088 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a9780300209365 (paperback)
020			_a0300209363 (paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)852488244 _z(OCoLC)862032721 _z(OCoLC)898526590
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aHV 6545 _b.H372 2013
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aHecht, Jennifer Michael, _d1965-
245	1	0	_aStay : _ba history of suicide and the philosophies against it / _cJennifer Michael Hecht.
264		1	_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c2013.
300			_axii, 264 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aOne. The Ancient World -- Two. Religion Rejects Suicide -- Three. To Be or Not to Be: New Questions in the Rise of Modernism -- Four. Secular Philosophy Defends Suicide -- Five. The Argument of Community -- Six. Modern Social Science on Community and Influence -- Seven. Hope for Our Future Selves -- Eight. The Twentieth Century's Two Major Voices on Suicide -- Nine. Suffering and Happiness -- Ten. Modern Philosophical Conversations.
520			_aWorldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history's most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our "secular age" in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment's insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide.
650		0	_aSuicide.
650		0	_aSuicide _xPrevention.
650		0	_aCommunities.
650		4	_aSuicide.
650		4	_aSuicide _xPrevention.
650		4	_aCommunities.
994			_aC0 _bVF$
999			_c135398 _d135398