How Are We to Confront Death? An Introduction to Philosophy

Name: How Are We to Confront Death? An Introduction to Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780823242405

ISBN-10: 0823242404

ISBN-13: 9780823242405

Edition: 2012

Authors: Franï¿½oise Dastur, Robert Vallier, David Farrell Krell

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Confronting death means looking it squarely in the face. Contemporary society refuses to do so, preferring to hide it and hide from it. Funeral rites no longer function as a way to mediate death or to maintain a link between the living and dead. Today the disappearance of certain funerary practices attests to the denial of death as such. They reflect a preference for focusing on remembering the life of the deceased in order to neutralize death, thus displacing the value of mourning, now viewed as something to be done as quickly as possible. Moreover, science, like religion before it and like the contemporary "cult of the body," has fed our fantasies about immortality, promising us longer…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Franï¿½oise Dastur is Professeur Emerita at the Universitï¿½ de Nice. Her most recent book to appear in English is How Are We to Confront Death? An Introduction to Philosophy (Fordham).

David Farrell Krell, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, is author of several books, including Postponements (IUP, 1986), Of Memory, Reminiscence, Writing (IUP, 1990), Daimon Life (IUP, 1992), Infectious Nietzsche (IUP, 1996), and Contagion (IUP, 1998).