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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
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Western Attitudes toward Death, Philippe Ariès
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- 1975
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- Title
- Western Attitudes toward Death
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Philippe Ariès
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Released
- 1975
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 0801817625
- ISBN13
- 9780801817625
- Series
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- 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