Exploring Grief

Download or read book Exploring Grief written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modern society’s routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society’s growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with interests in the emotions and social pathologies.