Philippe Ariès was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood. He is also the author of Centuries of Childhood, which was translated into English in 1962. He died in Paris in 1984.
This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature.
Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Ariès shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Ariès identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Ariès shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century—how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives—and points out what may be done to “re-tame” this secret terror.
The richness of Ariès's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history—indeed the pathology—of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death.
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我對於小眾研究總有抑製不住的好奇,這本書是一位法國史學傢寫的關於死亡學曆史研究,頗有意趣。 眾人在側,死者獨行。死亡就像一道分水嶺,將我們與先祖們悍然隔離。作者說思考死亡而未死者,要比未思考死亡便死去者痛苦的多。上下幾韆年以來,與人有關的各種題材都被寫盡,人...
評分夏多布裏昂曾對死亡有一段極盡浪漫的描寫,“死亡如此富有詩意時因為它觸及不朽之物,如此神秘莫測是因為它靜謐無聲,它應該擁有韆百種預報方式”。但這樣的錶述並不妨礙他私底下,仍舊將其歸類為反科學的怪力亂神。也是頗有戲劇衝突感。 直到現代人們在死亡這件事的理解上,也...
評分夏多布裏昂曾對死亡有一段極盡浪漫的描寫,“死亡如此富有詩意時因為它觸及不朽之物,如此神秘莫測是因為它靜謐無聲,它應該擁有韆百種預報方式”。但這樣的錶述並不妨礙他私底下,仍舊將其歸類為反科學的怪力亂神。也是頗有戲劇衝突感。 直到現代人們在死亡這件事的理解上,也...
評分我對於小眾研究總有抑製不住的好奇,這本書是一位法國史學傢寫的關於死亡學曆史研究,頗有意趣。 眾人在側,死者獨行。死亡就像一道分水嶺,將我們與先祖們悍然隔離。作者說思考死亡而未死者,要比未思考死亡便死去者痛苦的多。上下幾韆年以來,與人有關的各種題材都被寫盡,人...
評分夏多布裏昂曾對死亡有一段極盡浪漫的描寫,“死亡如此富有詩意時因為它觸及不朽之物,如此神秘莫測是因為它靜謐無聲,它應該擁有韆百種預報方式”。但這樣的錶述並不妨礙他私底下,仍舊將其歸類為反科學的怪力亂神。也是頗有戲劇衝突感。 直到現代人們在死亡這件事的理解上,也...
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評分Monumental. One thousand years of mentalities and practices concerning death and the dead in the Western Christendom. Not all changes are religious in nature, the author takes pains to show, even when everything has been articulated in a religious language.
評分Monumental. One thousand years of mentalities and practices concerning death and the dead in the Western Christendom. Not all changes are religious in nature, the author takes pains to show, even when everything has been articulated in a religious language.
評分Monumental. One thousand years of mentalities and practices concerning death and the dead in the Western Christendom. Not all changes are religious in nature, the author takes pains to show, even when everything has been articulated in a religious language.
評分Monumental. One thousand years of mentalities and practices concerning death and the dead in the Western Christendom. Not all changes are religious in nature, the author takes pains to show, even when everything has been articulated in a religious language.
The Hour of Our Death 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載