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Bring Out Your Dead, by Laurent Guyénot
The Unz Review 22 Oct 2021
Asians show no sign of a collective death-wish ... family, clan and nation ... By eroding considerably the ties of solidarity between the dead and the living, Catholicism gradually transformed “solidary death” into “solitary death”, in the words of Philippe Ariès.Philippe Ariès, L’Homme devant la mort, tome 1 ... Philippe Ariès, L’Homme devant la mort, tome 1.
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A growing clamour of voices treats the pandemic as if it's just health and safety gone mad
The Observer 26 Apr 2020
The quiet stoicism of some Conservative MPs ... Even Philippe Ariès, the historian of death, with his insistence on ancestral equanimity, seems to have conceded, unlike Sumption, that more recognisable expressions of loss had crept in by the time Shakespeare came up with “the funeral bak’d meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” ... .
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Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Most children caught up in war die early’
The Observer 13 Oct 2019
Svetlana Alexievich gave a lecture last week commemorating the work of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Alexievich’s book Last Witnesses. Unchildlike Stories was published in June in the UK, more than three decades after it first appeared in the USSR to critical acclaim ... And The Hour of Our Death by the French historian Philippe Ariès ... .
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