Sheathing the Bodkin: Combating Suicide is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and independent scholar Jennifer Michael Hecht. After intriguing details about how she combines writing poetry, doing scholarly history and public writing, this wide-ranging conversation movingly embellishes upon Jennifer Michael Hecht’s book, Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, which is an intellectual and cultural history of the most persuasive arguments against suicide from the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such 20-century writers as Albert Camus.
This conversation will be released in a carefully-edited video format. Available now is an enhanced book developed from the conversation, while Jennifer Michael Hecht is also featured in 3 short documentaries – all details are below.
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
Sheathing the Bodkin: Combating Suicide is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About History, Volume 3, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
Jennifer Michael Hecht is featured in 3 short documentaries together with several other scholars, including Frans de Waal, Nile Green, Carol Dweck, Michael Berry and Philip Zimbardo.
