Man's concern with death / Arnold Toynbee [and others]

Toynbee, Arnold (1889-1975)

1968, 1st edition. London : Hodder & Stoughton. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #384505
ISBN: 0340023805

Physical description; 280 pp., 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; The medical definition of death / A. Keith Mant -- Philosophical concepts of death / Ninian Smart -- The dying and the doctor / John Hinton -- Death and the young / Simon Yudkin -- Traditional attitudes towards death / Arnold Toynbee -- Attitudes towards death in eastern religions / Ninian Smart -- Death in the Judaeo-Christian tradition / Ninian Smart -- Changing attitudes towards death in the modern Western world / Arnold Toynbee -- Some inadequacies of recent Christian thought about death / Ninian Smart. Death and the decline of religion in Western society / Ninian Smart -- Death in war / Arnold Toynbee -- Increased longevity and the decline of infant mortality / Arnold Toynbee -- Death in twentieth-century fiction / Eric Rhode -- Perspectives from time, space and nature / Arnold Toynbee -- Attitudes to death in the light of dreams and other out-of-the-body experience / Rosalind Heywood -- Death and psychical research / Rosalind Heywood -- What kind of next world? / H.H. Price -- The relation between life and death, living and dying / Arnold Toynbee. Subjects; Death. Attitude to death. Psychological and metaphysical aspects of Death.

Price: €18.00