Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm

by Gavin Fairbairn

Book Overview

Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicidal self harm. His view is distinctive in not... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415106060
• ISBN13: 9780415106061
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This is the best I ever read on suicide and philosophy

This is the most objective and differentiated book I ever read on suicide and philosophy respectivly philology. It presents the different manifestations of suicide, its problems, on one hand facing common language and on the other hand coping with its usual (mis-)interpretations from its visible results. And, most important for me, it is not glossed over with any kind of idiology. It gives a competent overview over the whole subject and all of its facettes.