Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration, translations, and dates
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Public order and its malcontents
- Part II Disease of the century
- Part III Political theology and moral epidemics
- Epilogue
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Part II - Disease of the century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration, translations, and dates
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Public order and its malcontents
- Part II Disease of the century
- Part III Political theology and moral epidemics
- Epilogue
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Summary
Enlightened century, century of humanism and progress! You amuse the heart of man, lift up his mind, open to him all sorts of miracles in science and art, but you do not see that your weapon is double edged, you do not see that your many-branched tree is burning from one end with a brilliant and bright flame […] but from the other end it is covered in the gloom of despair and death, the groans of terror and screams, the torments of tears and blood. You are life and death, you are heaven and hell.
A. Klitin, Our Time and Suicide, 1890The phenomenon of suicide imposes a moral duty on the representatives of various specializations to labor together and develop preventative measures against this evil which in our days has become the disease of the century.
I. A. Sikorskii, “The Psychic Condition before Suicide,” 1896- Type
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- Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia , pp. 175 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007