Beschreibung:
This book is a collection of 11 essays addressing the place of death and its denial from a philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary perspectives. The collection offers contemporary and fresh insights on these timely questions. It was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
Introduction-After Life: Recent Philosophy and Death Death as a Limit to Philosophical Knowledge 1. Scandalous Death Challenges to Death: Undying 2. The Undying 3. The Second Death Challenges to the Life/Death Division 4. Jean-Luc Nancy's Ethics of Finitude 5. The Affirmation of Death 6. To Live and Die in History Heidegger: With and Beyond 7. Being Toward Death (That Has Already Happened) 8. Making Sense with Death: A Response to Heidegger 9. Being, Death, and Machination: Thinking Death with and beyond Heidegger The Socio-Political Discourse of Death 10. The Antinomy of Death: Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on Utopia and Hope 11. Dying One's Own Death: Freud with Rilke