On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death
... a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world... --Kirkus ReviewsJean Am ry (Auschwitz survivor and author of Atthe Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind ofreflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes furtherand more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide orvoluntary death.
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- ISBN: 978-0-253-33563-0
- EAN: 9780253335630
- Produktnummer: 9381092
- Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.1 cm 381 g
- Gewicht: 381
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den 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.
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