Culture, suicide, and the human condition

Culture, suicide, and the human condition /

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suici...

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Other Authors: Honkasalo, Marja-Liisa, Tuominen, Miira
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2014]
Subjects:
Suicide > Social aspects.
Suicide > Philosophy.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)

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505 0 |a Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Varieties of Suicide; Part I. Suicide; Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology; Chapter 2. When It Is Worth the Trouble to Die; Part II. Ancient and Medieval Approaches to Suicide; Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible"; Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women; Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages; Part III. Morality, Politics, and Violence. 
505 8 |a Chapter 6. "She Kissed Death with a Smile"; Chapter 7. "When We Stop Living, We Also Stop Dying"; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index. 
520 |a Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems. 
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