The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions ….

The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provi….

In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From the….

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age o….

Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the i….

Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of co….