Death : an essay on finitude
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Death : an essay on finitude
Athlone, 1996
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La mort : essai sur la finitude
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Translation of: La mort : essai sur la finitude. Paris : Hatier, 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-104) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Plato's "Phaedo", Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" and Heidegger's "Being and Time" are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the ideas that to practice philosophy is to practice how to die. This study traces how these variations are connected with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including Neitzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and levinas. The book also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - The magnitude of death. Culture of death: mourning, the origin of culture
- eschatological invention
- tragedy and mortality. The metaphysics of death: platonic immortality
- the Hegelian 'sublation' of death
- the metaphysics of becoming. Phenomenology of mortal being: my own death and the death of the other
- death and dying
- death and the possible. Mortality and finitude: finitude and totality
- finitude and natality
- original finitude. Conclusion: death, speech and laughter.
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