
Death
An Essay on Finitude
Francoise Dastur(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. December 2000
Book
Hardback
114 pages
978-0-485-11487-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
285 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-485-11487-4 (9780485114874)
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Persons
Francoise Dastur
Content
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.