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Agnostic
Alyosha Karamazov
Ancient Funeral Rituals
authenticity theory
Author_Paul Fairfield
Camus
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Contemporary Societies
Dasein's Comportment
Death Rituals
Dream
Early Hunter Gatherer Societies
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ethics of death
existential meaning of mortality
Existential Vacuum
existentialism
Face Death
Final Kiss
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Good Death
Good Life
Heidegger
Indefinite Life Extension
Ivan Ilych
Kierkegaard
medical humanities
Moral Sternness
mortality studies
Nietzsche
phenomenology
philosophical anthropology
philosophy
Physician Assisted
Post-totalitarian System
ritual
ritual meaning analysis
secular
Secular Age
secularism and death
suicide
Tame Death
Tightrope Walker
Vice Versa
Voluntary Death
Whispering Glades
Product details
- ISBN 9780415837613
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead" to Camus' argument that suicide is the fundamental question of philosophy, the concept of death plays an important role in existential phenomenology, reaching from Kierkegaard to Heidegger and Marcel.
This book explores the phenomenology of death and offers a unique way into the phenomenological tradition. Paul Fairfield examines the following key topics:
- the modern denial of death
- Heidegger's important concept of 'being-toward-death' and its centrality in phenomenological ideas, such as authenticity and existence
- the philosophical significance of death rituals: what explains the imperative toward ritual around death, and what is its purpose and meaning?
- death in an age of secularism
- the philosophy and ethics of suicide
- death as a mystery rather than a philosophical problem to be solved
- the relationship between hope and death
Death: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for students of phenomenology and existentialism, and will also be of interest to students in related fields such as religion, anthropology and the medical humanities.
Paul Fairfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada.
