In Search of Rationality and Objectivity: Origins and Development of East German Thanatology (2016)
The officially sanctioned thanatology of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) stressed a scientific approach, in which death was seen as a biological reality that needed to be faced and accepted rationally and objectively. However, such views could be troubling, as even the chief ideologist of the GDR, Kurt Hager, noted in 1979 that a purely scientific understanding of death represented a real challenge to Marxist–Leninist thinking. This challenge was especially pressing, since the East German state had battled with the churches from the mid-1950s on over the administration and meaning of death. A close reading of the materials concerning death culture in the GDR is a revealing case study of the relationship between materialism, religion and socialism in East Germany.
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