On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death

✍ Scribed by Jean Améry

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 86
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind’s Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.

✦ Table of Contents

Translator's Preface
Translator's Introduction
Preface
I. Before the Leap
II. How Natural is Death?
III. To Lay Hands on Oneself
IV. Belonging to Oneself
V. The Road to the Open
Notes

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