Death as the Other of High Modernity
We humanise mortality by viewing it as a set of problems, we seek an enemy and kill it, we turn to projects that we can handle and there by attempt to give ourselves a sense of mastery over reality” Bauman (1992) This essay will attempt to discus Bauman’s notion of death as the ‘other’ of high modernity, through explaining the methods in which high modernity has employed to sequester death, through medicine and thus institutionalising the dying and those involved. It is also discussed how curtain minorities are linked to death and as a result-attempted genocide is justified to eradicate death. Lastly it is explained how those exposed to death are affected. Up until the late 18th and early 19th century, death was a public affair. Literature such as ‘The book of the dead’ and the ‘Artes Morendi’ (How to Die well) gave society a common education that enabled one to know what was expected in the presence of death. Because death was an aspect of everyday life before the late 18th century the literature was used as a copping mechanism and ‘tamed’ Aries (1991) death. Death was explained in the literature not as an end, but as a transitional event and what could be done to be granted
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Approximate Word count = 2667
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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