Clancy Martin

How Not to Kill Yourself

A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

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Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed author of How to Sell comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780593466926
• ISBN-10: 0593466926
• Artikelnr.: 68506080

Autorenporträt

CLANCY MARTIN is the acclaimed author of the novel How to Sell (FSG) as well as numerous books on philosophy. A Guggenheim Fellow, his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Esquire, The New Republic, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Believer, and The Paris Review. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University in New Delhi. He is the survivor of more than ten suicide attempts and a recovering alcoholic.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note to the Reader • xi
Preface • xiii
 
Part I SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
1 The Suicidal Mind • 3
2 Is There a Death Drive? • 34
3 I Can Always Just Kill Myself Tomorrow • 59
4 They Fuck You Up / Your Mum and Dad (Part I) • 90
 
Part II ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE
5 Drinking Myself to Death • 113
6 Philosophical Suicide • 156
7 The Sickness unto Death: Observations from Édouard Levé, David Foster
Wallace, and Nelly Arcan • 192
8 The Afterlife, or, Welcome to the Psych Ward • 223
 
Part III THE LONG ROAD BACK
9 Relapse Is Part of Recovery • 249
10 They Fuck You Up / Your Mum and Dad (Part II) • 263
11 A Good Death? • 286
 
Acknowledgments • 335
Appendix I. Tools for Crisis • 337
Appendix II. In Case of Emergency: Interviews on Staying Alive • 341
Notes • 367
Index • 409