Death and the Creative Life Conversations with Prominent Artists and
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VOLUMEONE
BETWEEN LlFE AND DEATH Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., Editor
VOLUMETWO
SUICIDE AFTER SIXTY
The Final Alternative Marv Miller, Ph.D. VOLUME THREE
CHILDREN'S CONCEPTIONS OFDEATH Richard Lonetto, Ph.D. VOLUMEFOUR
DEATH AND THE CREATIVE LIFE
Conversations with Prominent Artists and Scientists Lisl Marburg Goodman, Ph.D.
Lisl Marburg Goodman, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at Jersey City State College and senior clinieal psychologist at the Psychiatrie Serviees Center in White Plains, New York. She received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. Dr. Goodman has published artieies in personality research and thanatology in scientific journals and she has participated in symposia and paper sessions at major psychological conventions in the United States and in Europe. Thanatology has been her special area of interest since 1971, when she devised one of the earliest college courses in that field for Jersey City State College.
DEATH AND THE CREATIVE LIFE Conversations with Prominent Artists and Scientists
Lisl Marburg Goodman,
PH.D.
Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC
To the Colonel
Appreciation is acknowledged to Professor Walter Kaufmann for permis sion to reproduce his translation of Holderlin's poem "Nur einen Sommer" from Walter Kaufmann, Existenti1llism, Religion, and Death, New American Library, © 1976 by Walter Kaufmann. AII rights reserved Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media New York 1981 1981 by Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1981 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, record ing, or otherwise, without the prior permis sion of Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
81 82 83 84 85 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Goodman, Lisi Marburg. Death and the creative life. (Springer series on death and suicide; 4) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Death-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. LifeAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. Artists-United StatesInterviews. 4. Scientists-United States-Interviews. 1. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Achievement. 2. Attitude to death. 3. Creativeness. Wl SP685P v. 4 /BF 789. D4 G653d] BD444.G66 128'.5 81-1045 ISBN 978-3-662-37423-8 ISBN 978-3-662-38174-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-38174-8
Contents Foreward by Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D. Preface Acknowledgments Introduction
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Part I THE PROBLEM OF DEATH 1 Fears of Death 2 Timely and Untimely Death
Part 11 3
3 13
THE INTERVIEWS
Introduction to the Interview Process
4 Interviews with Artists Nathan Milstein Alexander Schneider Isaac Stern Beveridge Webster Paul Doktor Vladimir Ashkenazy Alan Arkin Eva Le Gallienne Alton Tobey William King Lawrence BeaU Smith
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51 54 56
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5 Analysis of Artists' Responses
Contents
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6 Interviews with Scientists John A. Wheeler Eugene Paul Wigner Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Ira B. Bernstein Henry Margenau
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