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Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger: Origins of the Existential Philosophy of Death

Autor Adam Buben
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2016
Death is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy, and this attention has resulted in diverse and complex views on death and what comes after. In Meaning and Mortality, Adam Buben offers a remarkably useful new framework for understanding the ways in which philosophy has discussed death by focusing first on two traditional strains in the discussion, the Platonic and the Epicurean. After providing a thorough account of this ancient dichotomy, he describes the development of an alternative means of handling death in Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger, whose work on death tends to overshadow Kierkegaard's despite the undeniable influence exerted on him by the nineteenth-century Dane. Buben argues that Kierkegaard and Heidegger prescribe a peculiar way of living with death that offers a kind of compromise between the Platonic and the Epicurean strains.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810132511
ISBN-10: 0810132516
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press

Notă biografică

ADAM BUBEN is an assistant professor of comparative philosophy at Leiden University College in the Netherlands.

Cuprins

Chapter One – Introduction
Inclusion and Organization.
Bilateral Development of the Philosophy of Death.

Chapter Two – The Platonic Strain
Plato.
Early Christian Appropriation.
From Neo-Platonism to Medieval Christianity.
An Augustinian Reformation.

Chapter Three – The Epicurean Strain
The Epicureans.
The Stoics.
Early Modern Appropriation.
The Nineteenth Century Germans.
Death in Twentieth (and Twenty-first) Century Analytic Philosophy.

Chapter Four – Kierkegaard’s Death Project
Death in the Early Writings.
Death in the Middle Writings.
Death in the Late Writings.
The Proper Audience.

Chapter Five – Kierkegaard’s Appropriation and Criticism of the Tradition
Kierkegaard on Socrates and Christianity.
Kierkegaard Contra Epicurus.

Chapter Six – Death in Being and Time
The Death Chapter.
Death and the Rest of “Division Two.”

Chapter Seven – Heidegger’s Reception of Kierkegaard: The Existential Philosophy of Death
What Heidegger Was Reading
A Few Apparent “Borrowings”
Similar Projects
Bonding over Fear and Anxiety
A Last Word on Influences

Chapter Eight – The Limits and Legacy of the Existential Philosophy of Death
French Thought and the Death of the Other
Heidegger’s “Atheism” and the Theology of Kierkegaard
The Emptiness of Anticipatory Resoluteness
A Mutual Understanding

Conclusion

Descriere

Death is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy, and this attention has resulted in diverse and complex views on death and what comes after. In Meaning and Mortality, Adam Buben offers a remarkably useful new framework for understanding the ways in which philosophy has discussed death by focusing first on two traditional strains in the discussion, the Platonic and the Epicurean.