Biathanatos: A Modern-Spelling Edition
John Donne, Michael Rudick (editor), M. Pabst Battin (editor)
First printed posthumously in 1647, Biathanos probably was written in 1608. It is a substantial work by a major English writer, yet it has received scant critical attention. Those interested in Renaissance ideas will find in the work both an enunciation and a critique of many central intellectual commonplaces of the age. The work develops a position on the issue of suicide which is not only the earliest published and perhaps still the most thorough critique of the traditional Christian position on suicide, but also it is one of the most perceptive and most wholly original accounts of suicide to be written in the entire history of the moral, ethical and religious controversies bearing on the subject.
Reading the work requires work, but surely, rewards will be forthcoming.
Année:
1982
Editeur::
Garland
Langue:
english
Pages:
288
ISBN 10:
0824094816
ISBN 13:
9780824094812
Collection:
Garland English Texts 1
Fichier:
PDF, 57.12 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1982