The Culture of Death

by Benjamin Noys

Book Overview

Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of all human rights in far-flung prison camps. We live in an age of panic, when the fear of death at any time and in any place is present. And we live in an age of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845200691
• ISBN13: 9781845200695
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"