The Politics of Being Mortal

While much has been written in recent years on death and dying, there has been little treatment of how people cope with death in the absence of religious belief, and virtually no examination of the potential political repercussions of a wider acceptance of mortality in American society. Alfred Killilea's strikingly original book revolves around a central irony: though the subject of death has been largely shunned in American culture lest it rob life of meaning and contentment, confronting death

Author: Alfred G. Killilea
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780813152875

About the Author

Alfred G. Killilea is professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island.

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