The Death Café Movement : Exploring the Horizons of Mortality

This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Café, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in "death talk" over coffee, tea, and desserts. Using insightful theoretical frameworks, Fong explores the common themes that constitute a "death identi...

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Main Author: Fong, Jack. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Sociology.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social medicine.
Human body > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9783319542560
Physical Description: XXIII, 284 p. 59 illus. online resource.

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505 0 |a 1. Coffee and Death -- 2. Baby Boomers and the Death Café -- 3. Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld -- 4. Death Café Communicative Action -- 5. Death Sentiments and Death Themes -- 6. Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff -- 7. Enhancing Habermas with Ray Oldenburg -- 8. Decolonizing the Lifeworld. 
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