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Sex and death : a reappraisal of human mortality

by Beverley Clack

This book examines how Western religious and secular traditions attempt to transcend physical human limits such as mortality. It offers an alternative philosophical approach that accepts birth, sex and death as central to a profound understanding of human existence.

Accession 1542 ISBN 9780745622781 Publisher Polity
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