Western attitudes toward death: from the middle ages to the present

Auteur :
Ariès, Philippe
Éditeur :
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN :
9780801817625
Date de publication :
26 sept. 1975
Dimensions :
20,3 x 13,2 x 1,0 cm
Poids :
159 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek