The death café movement : exploring the horizons of mortality /: exploring the horizons of mortality. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• 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 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.
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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