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Confronting Death - College Students on the Community of Mortals (Hardcover): Alfred G. Killilea, Dylan D. Lynch Confronting Death - College Students on the Community of Mortals (Hardcover)
Alfred G. Killilea, Dylan D. Lynch
R843 R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Save R104 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live. In this series of eighteen essays, college students examine death in new ways. Their essays provide remarkable ideas about how death can transform people and societies.

Alfred G. Killilea, a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, teams up with former student Dylan D. Lynch and various contributors to share insights about a multitude of issues tied to death, including terrorists, child soldiers, Nazism, fascism, suicide, capital punishment and the Black Death.

Other essays explore death themes in classic and contemporary literature, such as in Dante, Peter Pan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Christopher Hitchens. Still others explore death in modern context, considering the work of Jane Goodall, the threat of death on Mount Everest, the origins of the "Grim Reaper," and how violent street gangs deal with death.

At a time when American politics suffers from deep ideological divisions that could make our nation ungovernable, our mutual mortality may be the most potent force for unifying us and helping us to find common ground.

Befriending Death - Over 100 Essayists on Living and Dying (Hardcover): Michael Vocino, Alfred G. Killilea Befriending Death - Over 100 Essayists on Living and Dying (Hardcover)
Michael Vocino, Alfred G. Killilea
R697 R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Save R75 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Befriending Death - Over 100 Essayists on Living and Dying (Paperback): Michael Vocino, Alfred G. Killilea Befriending Death - Over 100 Essayists on Living and Dying (Paperback)
Michael Vocino, Alfred G. Killilea
R440 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confronting Death - College Students on the Community of Mortals (Paperback): Alfred G. Killilea, Dylan D. Lynch Confronting Death - College Students on the Community of Mortals (Paperback)
Alfred G. Killilea, Dylan D. Lynch
R579 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R47 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live. In this series of eighteen essays, college students examine death in new ways. Their essays provide remarkable ideas about how death can transform people and societies.

Alfred G. Killilea, a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, teams up with former student Dylan D. Lynch and various contributors to share insights about a multitude of issues tied to death, including terrorists, child soldiers, Nazism, fascism, suicide, capital punishment and the Black Death.

Other essays explore death themes in classic and contemporary literature, such as in Dante, Peter Pan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Christopher Hitchens. Still others explore death in modern context, considering the work of Jane Goodall, the threat of death on Mount Everest, the origins of the "Grim Reaper," and how violent street gangs deal with death.

At a time when American politics suffers from deep ideological divisions that could make our nation ungovernable, our mutual mortality may be the most potent force for unifying us and helping us to find common ground.

The Politics of Being Mortal (Paperback): Alfred G. Killilea The Politics of Being Mortal (Paperback)
Alfred G. Killilea
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the potential political repercussions of a wider acceptance of mortality in American society. Alfred Killilea's strikingly original book revolves around a central irony: though the subject of death has been largely shunned in American culture lest it rob life of meaning and contentment, confronting death may be crucial to enable us as individuals and as a society to affirm life, even to survive, in this nuclear age. Killilea argues that the denial of death has fostered a disavowal of limits in general, and that a greater awareness of our mortality would provide a much needed catalyst for change in our political response to narcissism and nuclearism. He traces how, from John Locke to the present, a politics and an economics based on growth for the sake of growth have required an avoidance of human vulnerability. Our confrontation with mortality, Killilea argues, would goad us to question our roles as mere acquirers and to take more seriously the need for equality and community in our society. In charting how we can come to terms with death and how profoundly our attitudes toward death affect our attitudes toward politics, Killilea vides lucid and authoritative commentaries on such provocative thinkers as Earnest Becker, Robert Jay Lifton, Michael Novak, Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Jonathan Schell. Scholars in many fields as well as interested lay readers will find the treatment of these issues and thinkers compelling. This easily accessible book is an urgent reminder that the most valuable spur to the examined life extolled by Socrates is the knowledge that we will die.

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