Beschreibung:
This volume reflects on the old philosophical question of how to live the good life, not only with others who are physically with us, but also with those, whose presence is ghostly and liminal.
Introduction; Part I: Gaps, glitches and ghosts; 1. Wandering in obscurity: modern experiences of time; 2. The ghost of Patrocles: humanity and respect for the dead; 3. The ghosts of Cain and Abel: am I my brother's keeper?; Part II: Looking back after 1945; 4. Walls and windows of silence; 5. Why silence was not possible: Arendt on the Holocaust and totalitarianism; 6. The lost and haunted world of Austerlitz; Part III: Looking back after 1989; 7. Being and not being there: Holocaust memorials, selfies and social media; 8. Lenin's haunted house: ghosts and political theology; 9. Nostalgia for phantom homelands: nowhere versus somewhere; Epilogue