| Description |
xi, 211 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Death and philosophy: Introduction / Jeff Malpas and Robert C. Solomon -- 2. My death / Tem Horwitz -- 3. Against death / Reinhard Steiner -- 4. On the purported insignificance of death / Ivan Soll -- 5. Death and the skeleton / Kathleen Higgins -- 6. Death, the bald scenario / Betty S. Flowers -- 7. Death as transformation in classical Daoism / Roger T. Ames -- 8. Death and enlightenment / Robert Wicks -- 9. Death and detachment / Graham Parkes -- 10. Death and metaphysics / Peter Kraus -- 11. Death and authenticity / Julian Young -- 12. Death and the unity of a life / Jeff Malpas -- 13. The antinomy of death / Peter Loptson -- 14. Death fetishism, morbid solipsism / Robert C. Solomon |
| Summary |
Thinkers such as Camus and Heidegger brought the idea of death to prominence in the twentieth century, but death as a topic has preoccupied philosophers since Greek times. This collection brings together well-known writers both from within philosophy and outside, providing a range of perspectives from the philosophical to the personal (including one account of a 'near-death experience') and the literary to the aesthetic. Death and Philosophy is written with the general reader in mind. However, it will be of particular interest to philosophers, or those studying religion and theology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 198-202) and index |
| Subject |
Death.
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| Author |
Malpas, Jeff.
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Solomon, Robert C.
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| LC no. |
98021615 |
| ISBN |
0415191432 |
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0415191440 (paperback) |
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