9780300209365-0300209363-Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It

Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It

ISBN-13: 9780300209365
ISBN-10: 0300209363
Author: Jennifer Michael Hecht
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300209365
ISBN-10: 0300209363
Author: Jennifer Michael Hecht
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It (ISBN-13: 9780300209365 and ISBN-10: 0300209363), written by authors Jennifer Michael Hecht, was published by Yale University Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive

Worldwide, 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.
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