Betwixt and Between: Suicide, Sociology, and the Problem of Meaning

The European Legacy 27 (5):435-455 (2022)
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, rising rates of suicide were widely held to be indicative of a pervasive crisis of meaning. This article examines the response to the problem of...

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10.1080/10848770.2022.2041793

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