After Life (eBook, ePUB)

Recent Philosophy and Death
Redaktion: Cohen, Rona; Ronen, Ruth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000849981
• Artikelnr.: 67380643

Autorenporträt

Rona Cohen teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of many articles on Jean-Luc Nancy, Kant, Lacan, and the problem of the body in philosophy. Her areas of interest include continental philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of death. Ruth Ronen is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel, currently head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies. Her areas of research are the philosophy of art, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, psychoanalytic thought (Freud and Lacan) and possible worlds (as interdisciplinary concept).

Inhaltsangabe

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