Sheathing the Bodkin: Combating Suicide - A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht
By Howard Burton
Length1h 35m
About this audiobook
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and poet, author and historian commentator Jennifer Michael Hecht. After intriguing details about how she combines writing poetry, doing scholarly history and public writing, this wide-ranging conversation movingly embellishes upon Jennifer Michael Hecht's book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, which is an intellectual and cultural history of the most persuasive arguments against suicide from the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as Albert Camus.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, ..Or To Lend A Hand, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Different Hats - And how to combine them
II. Facing the Unthinkable - Confronting suicide
III. Historical Examinations - A litany of intriguing insights
IV. Suffering - Worth recognizing
V. Meaning and Mattering - The benefits of faith
About Ideas Roadshow Conversations:
This book is part of a series of 100 Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length1 hr 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6II. Facing the Unthinkable
2A Note on the Text
7III. Historical Examinations
3Introduction
8IV. Suffering
4The Conversation
9V. Meaning and Mattering
5I. Different Hats
10Continuing the Conversation
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