The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197654385
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages552 pages
- Size 252x182x38 mm
- Weight 1075 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Written by thirty-five leading scholars, The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide provides a fresh and compelling analysis of past and contemporary trends in the field. Divided into three parts, it starts with a critical overview of the most important historical philosophical approaches to suicide throughout the world and goes on to discuss the nature, morality, and rationality of suicide. The final section covers philosophical issues related to the practice of suicide, addressing the ethics of suicide prevention and intervention, new suicide technologies, suicide and mental illness, suicide and media ethics, and suicide and gender.
MoreLong description:
Can suicide be, in certain situations, morally permissible or even morally obligatory? Can it be a rational choice? What are our obligations toward suicidal individuals? How should we even define suicide? The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide discusses these questions and expands the frontier of philosophical discourse to include heretofore neglected ethical and social aspects of suicide.
Starting with a critical overview of the most important historical philosophical approaches to suicide, the chronologically ordered chapters in the first part of this volume cover both Western and non-Western philosophical traditions. The second part is dedicated to foundational issues such as the nature, morality, and rationality of suicide. The final section covers philosophical issues related to the practice of suicide, addressing topics such as the ethics of suicide prevention and intervention, new suicide technologies, suicide and mental illness, suicide and media ethics, and suicide and gender, among others.
Across thirty-three chapters written by thirty-five leading scholars, this handbook provides a fresh, compelling analysis of past and contemporary trends in the philosophy of suicide.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Past and Contemporary Perspectives on the Philosophy of Suicide
Michael Cholbi, Paolo Stellino
PART I: Suicide in Philosophical Traditions
2. Suicide in Asian Traditions
Charles Goodman
3. Suicide in Ancient Greece
Anna B. Christensen
4. Suicide in Roman Philosophy
Hélder Telo
5. The Christian Prohibition of Suicide
Philip A. Reed
6. Suicide in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches
Abdullah Saeed, Ali Akbar
7. Suicide in Early Modern Western Philosophy
Colin Heydt
8. Suicide in Modern Western Philosophy
Héctor Wittwer
9. Suicide in Contemporary Western Philosophy I: the 19th Century
Patrick Hassan
10. Suicide in Contemporary Western Philosophy II: the Philosophy of Suicide in Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Yael Lavi
PART II: Foundational Issues
11. What Is Suicide?
Steven Luper
12. Choosing Death: Virtue Ethics and Suicide
Liezl van Zyl
13. Kantian Approaches to Suicide
Lina Papadaki
14. Utilitarianism and Suicide
Torbjörn Tännsjö
15. The Rationality of Suicide
Frances M. Kamm
16. Suicide's Relation to Freedom
Paolo Stellino
17. Is There a Right to Suicide?
Chris Belshaw
18. Is There a Duty to Suicide?
Chris Belshaw
19. The Value of Death and Suicide
Travis Timmerman
20. Suicide and Pessimism
Andrea S. Asker
21. Suicide and Life's Meaningfulness
Michael Hauskeller
PART III: Suicide in Practice
22. Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention
Michael Cholbi
23. Assisted Suicide: Deliverance or Danger?
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
24. Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Zsuzsanna Chappell
25. The Risks and Rewards of New Suicide Technologies
Adam Buben
26. Grief and Suicide
Becky Miller
27. Suicide as a Protest
Antti Kauppinen
28. Suicide Tourism
Daniel Sperling
29. Suicide and Depression
Nathaniel Sharadin
30. Suicide and Mental Illness
Hane Htut Maung
31. Suicide and Media Ethics
Sallyanne Duncan
32. Suicide, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Erick Ramirez and Susan Kennedy
33. Suicide in the Moving Image
David Sorfa
34. Suicide and Gender
Katrina Jaworski
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