On Suicide - A Discourse on Voluntary Death

Informationen zum Autor Jean Améry (1921-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance Movement. He was caught by the Nazis in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. He was author of seven volumes of essays and two novels. He committed suicide in 1978. John D. Barlow is Dean Emeritus of the School of Liberal Arts and Professor Emeritus of English and German at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is author of German Expressionist Film and several translations, including Jean Améry's On Aging. Klappentext But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. Zusammenfassung Probes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Preface Translator's Introduction Preface I. Before the Leap II. How Natural is Death? III. To Lay Hands on Oneself IV. Belonging to Oneself V. The Road to the Open Notes

Product details

• Authors: Jean Amery, AMERY JEAN
• Assisted by: Translated by John D Barlow Jean Amery (Editor), John Barlow (Translation), John D Barlow (Translation), John D. Barlow (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.1999
• EAN: 9780253335630
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33563-0
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Psychologie, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, PSYCHOLOGY / Suicide