Jennifer Michael Hecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Michael Hecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Hecht |
| SIGNATURE | HECHT J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nassau Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, argum…
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
Humor and poetry: Snapping out of it
The article argues that humor and poetry are “arts of sudden knowledge,” along with art, meditation, and psychology. In arts of sudden knowledge one paradigm suddenly gives way to another. They are based on the embarrassment of narrative inventions. Sonnets are particularly associated with turns, usually in the final couplet. Jokes too have a pivot, at the punchline. We live in a moral world that exists within a world in which animals eat each ot…
Vacher de Lapouge and the Rise of Nazi Science
In the literature on the history of the Shoah the existence of a tradition of explicit anti-morality has been generally ignored. 1 This article argues that the materialist anthropology of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries waged a direct attack on morality, which was described as inherently linked to religion. Strict materialism also denied any human access to the eternal except through biological lineage, linking the past, present…
The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890-1919
French nineteenth-century political theory generally held that the empirical scientism associated with the Enlightenment was inextricable from Enlightenment egalitarian ideals. As the century drew to a close, a racist anthropology developed that seemed to confound this idea because it combined scientism with a devotion to human inequality. There were several varieties of this phenomenon, but Georges Vacher de Lapouge's anthroposociology was most …
French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876-1914)
Les Géants patagons: Voyage aux origines de l'homme
A vigilant anthropology: Léonce Manouvrier and the disappearing numbers
Vacher de Lapouge and the Rise of Nazi Science
In the literature on the history of the Shoah the existence of a tradition of explicit anti-morality has been generally ignored. 1 This article argues that the materialist anthropology of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries waged a direct attack on morality, which was described as inherently linked to religion. Strict materialism also denied any human access to the eternal except through biological lineage, linking the past, present…
French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876-1914)
French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876-1914)
Les Géants patagons: Voyage aux origines de l'homme
A vigilant anthropology: Léonce Manouvrier and the disappearing numbers
The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890-1919
French nineteenth-century political theory generally held that the empirical scientism associated with the Enlightenment was inextricable from Enlightenment egalitarian ideals. As the century drew to a close, a racist anthropology developed that seemed to confound this idea because it combined scientism with a devotion to human inequality. There were several varieties of this phenomenon, but Georges Vacher de Lapouge's anthroposociology was most …
Vacher de Lapouge and the Rise of Nazi Science
In the literature on the history of the Shoah the existence of a tradition of explicit anti-morality has been generally ignored. 1 This article argues that the materialist anthropology of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries waged a direct attack on morality, which was described as inherently linked to religion. Strict materialism also denied any human access to the eternal except through biological lineage, linking the past, present…
Humor and poetry: Snapping out of it
The article argues that humor and poetry are “arts of sudden knowledge,” along with art, meditation, and psychology. In arts of sudden knowledge one paradigm suddenly gives way to another. They are based on the embarrassment of narrative inventions. Sonnets are particularly associated with turns, usually in the final couplet. Jokes too have a pivot, at the punchline. We live in a moral world that exists within a world in which animals eat each ot…
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, argum…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Library science (2 works)