| Description |
v, 107 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Magnitude of Death -- Ch. I. Culture and Death. 1. Mourning, the origin of culture. 2. Eschatological invention. 3. Tragedy and mortality -- Ch. II. The Metaphysics of Death. 1. Platonic immortality. 2. The Hegelian 'sublation' of death. 3. The metaphysics of becoming -- Ch. III. Phenomenology of Mortal Being. 1. My own death and the death of the other. 2. Death and dying. 3. Death and the possible -- Ch. IV. Mortality and Finitude. 1. Finitude and totality. 2. Finitude and natality. 3. Original finitude -- Conclusion: Death, Speech and Laughter |
| Summary |
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 idea that to practise philosophy is to practise how to die. Francoise Dastur's 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 Nietzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. Professor Dastur 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 |
| Notes |
"First published in France 1994 by Hatier, Paris as La Mort: Essai sur la Finitude"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104) and index |
| Subject |
Death.
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Finite, The.
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| Author |
Llewelyn, John, 1928-
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| LC no. |
96009619 |
| ISBN |
0485114879 (hb) |
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