Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies

Name: Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies
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ISBN: 9780804721646

ISBN-10: 0804721645

ISBN-13: 9780804721646

Edition: 1992

Authors: Zygmunt Bauman

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Zygmunt Bauman's book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the "taboo" subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture. The hypothesis explored in the book is that the necessity of human beings to live with the constant awareness of death accounts for crucial aspects of the social organization of all known societies. Two different "life strategies" are distinguished in respect of reactions to mortality. One, "the modern strategy," deconstructs mortality by translating the insoluble issue of death into many specific problems of…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



About this Book


Living with Death


Bidding for Immortality


The Selfish Species


Modernity, or Deconstructing Mortality


Postmodernity, or Deconstructing Immortality


Postscript: "To die for...', or Death and Morality