By Paul Fairfield
From Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is lifeless" to Camus' argument that suicide is the basic query of philosophy, the idea that of demise performs an enormous position in existential phenomenology, achieving from Kierkegaard to Heidegger and Marcel.
This ebook explores the phenomenology of demise and gives a different manner into the phenomenological culture. Paul Fairfield examines the subsequent key topics:
- the sleek denial of dying
- Heidegger's vital idea of 'being-toward-death' and its centrality in phenomenological rules, similar to authenticity and life
- the philosophical value of loss of life rituals: what explains the crucial towards ritual round demise, and what's its goal and that means?
- death in an age of secularism
- the philosophy and ethics of suicide
- death as a secret instead of a philosophical challenge to be solved
- the dating among wish and death.
Death: A Philosophical Inquiry is crucial analyzing for college kids of phenomenology and existentialism, and also will be of curiosity to scholars in similar fields equivalent to faith, anthropology and the clinical humanities.
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