Philosophy and Suicide-Statistics in Austria-Hungary: Variation on a Theme of Masaryk

In On Masaryk. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 291-316 (1988)
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In his book The Austrian Mind (1972) W. M. Johnston observes that between 1861 and 1938 a striking number of Austrian intellectuals committed uicide. He also remarks that prior to 1920 suicide was relatively rare among Hungarian intellectuals, and as a possible explanation he refers to their more intensive political activity. The present paper investigates relations between a society's intellectual life and its general suicidal tendencies. In so doing it takes up a central theme of T. G. Masaryk's Suicide as a Social Mass Phenomenon of Modern Civilization, published in Vienna in 1881.

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