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Biathanatos : a modern-spelling edition /John Donne ; with i ntrod. and comment. by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Battin by John Donne, Michael Rudick (editor), M. Pabst Battin (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Biathanatos : a modern-spelling edition /John Donne ; with i ntrod. and comment. by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Battin about?
First printed posthumously in 1647, Biathanos probably was written in 1608. It is a substantial work by a major English writer, yet it has received scant critical attention. Those interested in Renaissance ideas will find in the work both an enunciation and a critique of many central intellectual commonplaces of the age. The work develops a position on the issue of suicide which is not only the earliest published and perhaps still the most thorough critique of the traditional Christian position on suicide, but also it is one of the most perceptive and most wholly original accounts of suicide to be written in the entire history of the moral, ethical and religious controversies bearing on the subject.Reading the work requires work, but surely, rewards will be forthcoming.
Who reads Biathanatos : a modern-spelling edition /John Donne ; with i ntrod. and comment. by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Battin?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Donne, Michael Rudick (editor), M. Pabst Battin (editor)
- Publisher
- Garland Publishing, Incorporated
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824094812
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Renaissance & Modern Philosophy, Social_sciences