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Contemplating Suicide - The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm (Hardcover)
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Contemplating Suicide - The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm (Hardcover)
Series: Social Ethics and Policy
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Suicide has long posed problems for philosophy. Philosophers, such
Albert Camus, have situated in the center of the debate about
metaphysics and the meaning of life. Hegel understood death to be
the raison d'etre of philosophical project. And scores of other
since them have treated suicide as central to the West's
understanding of itself. In "Contemplating Suicide," Gavin
Fairbairn takes a fresh and philosophical look at suicide. He
examines the nomenclature of suicide, and how the language of
suicide affects our understanding and denigration of "suicidal
bodies."
Fairbairn offers cogent reasons for abandoning the mindless use of
terms such as "attempted suicide" and "parasuicide," and introduces
a number of terms including "cosmic roulette," which he uses to
describe a family of human acts in which people gamble with their
lives.
By elaborating a richer model of suicidal self harm than most
philosophers and most practitioners of caring professions currently
inhabit, Fairbairn has contributed to the development of
understanding in this area. Among other things a richer model and
vocabulary may reduce the likelihood that those who come into
contact with suicidal self harm, will believe that familiarity with
the physical facts of the matter - the actions of the suicider and
the presence or absence of a corpse - is always sufficient to
justify a definite conclusion about the nature of the self harming
act.
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