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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values attitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was acceptable even heroic under some circumstances. With the rise of Christianity, however, suicide was unequivocally condemned as self-murder and an insult to God. With the Renaissance and its renewed interest in classical culture, suicide reemerged as a philosophical issue. Minois finds examples of changing attitudes in key Renaissance texts by Bacon, Montaigne, Sidney, Donne, and Shakespeare.

By 1700, the term suicide had replaced self-murder and the subject began to interest the emerging scientific disciplines. Minois follows the ongoing evaluation of suicide through the Enlightenment and the Romantic periods, and he examines attitudes that emerge in nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, law, philosophy, and literature. Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.

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Introduction

Part1 Tradition: A Repressed Question
1 Suicide in the Middle Ages: Nuances
2 The Legacy of the Middle Ages: Between Madness and Despair
3 The Classical Heritage: Perfecting the Timely Exit

Part2 The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Shifted
4 The Early Renaissance: Rediscovery of the Enigma of Suicide
5 To Be or Not to Be: The First Crisis of Conscience in Europe
6 The Seventeenth Century: Reaction and Repression
7 Substitutes for Suicide in the Seventeenth Century

Part3 The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt- Free
8 The Birth of the English Malady, 1680-1720
9 The Debate on Suicide in the Enlightenment: From Morality to Medicine
10 The Elite: From Philosophical Suicide to Romantic Suicide
11 The Common People: The Persistence of Ordinary Suicide

Epilogue: From the French Revolution to the Twentieth Century, or, From Free Debate to Silence

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*作成:今井 浩登