The death café movement : exploring the horizons of mortality /: exploring the horizons of mortality. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The death café movement : exploring the horizons of mortality /: exploring the horizons of mortality. (2017)
- Main Title:
- The death café movement : exploring the horizons of mortality
- Further Information:
- Note: Jack Fong.
- Authors:
- Fong, Jack, 1970-
- Contents:
- The Death Café Movement; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Coffee and Death; The Death Café Vibe; Overview of Chapters; 2 Baby Boomers and the Death Café; Keeping it Real; Baby Boomers; Notes; 3 Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld; Colonizing the Lifeworld of Death; Death Café Communicative Action: Validity Claims and Discourses; 4 Death Sentiments and Death Themes; Wordle Canvases of Death Café Participants and Each Death Café in Its Entirety. January 18, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for Death Café 1 (DC1)January 25, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC2; February 18, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC3; April 22, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC4; May 22, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC5; May 10 and July 16, 2015 Death Cafés (DC6 and DC7); Death Themes, Validity Claims, and Discourse Responses; Beyond Death; Death as Cultural Experience; Anxiety and Fear of Death; Liberation in Life and/or Death; Normativity in Death; Death as Social Critique; Criticism of the Media. Criticism of MedicineCriticism of the Market; Death as Authenticity and Truth; Legalities of Death and Dying; Coping with Death; Note; 5 Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff; Understanding Death Café Communicative Action with the Ideas of Erich Fromm; The Role of the State; Enhancing Communicative Action with the Ideas of Kurt Heinrich Wolff; Notes; 6 Enhancing HabermasThe Death Café Movement; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Coffee and Death; The Death Café Vibe; Overview of Chapters; 2 Baby Boomers and the Death Café; Keeping it Real; Baby Boomers; Notes; 3 Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld; Colonizing the Lifeworld of Death; Death Café Communicative Action: Validity Claims and Discourses; 4 Death Sentiments and Death Themes; Wordle Canvases of Death Café Participants and Each Death Café in Its Entirety. January 18, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for Death Café 1 (DC1)January 25, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC2; February 18, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC3; April 22, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC4; May 22, 2014: Wordle Canvases and Discussion for DC5; May 10 and July 16, 2015 Death Cafés (DC6 and DC7); Death Themes, Validity Claims, and Discourse Responses; Beyond Death; Death as Cultural Experience; Anxiety and Fear of Death; Liberation in Life and/or Death; Normativity in Death; Death as Social Critique; Criticism of the Media. Criticism of MedicineCriticism of the Market; Death as Authenticity and Truth; Legalities of Death and Dying; Coping with Death; Note; 5 Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff; Understanding Death Café Communicative Action with the Ideas of Erich Fromm; The Role of the State; Enhancing Communicative Action with the Ideas of Kurt Heinrich Wolff; Notes; 6 Enhancing Habermas with Ray Oldenburg; The Public Sphere; The Third Place; 7 Decolonizing the Lifeworld of Death; Is the Death Café Movement a "New" Social Movement?; The Catalyst of Risks. Resource Mobilization and Political Opportunity ViewsThe Manufacturing of Risky "Others"; Epilogue; References; Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Subjects:
- 306.9
Death
Death -- Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
Death
Death -- Social aspects
Social Sciences
Cultural Studies
Sociological Theory
Social Theory
Medical Sociology
Sociology of the Body
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319542560
3319542567 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319542553
3319542559 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index.
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