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Explores how philosophical thanatology - from Plato to Levinas - relates to psychoanalysis and the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths. Booknews Traces the connections between Plato's "Phaedo", Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit", and Heidegger's "Being and Time" as variations on the idea that to practice philosophy is to practice how to die, and examines reflections of this idea in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers. Also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates and is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths. First published in France in 1994 as "La Mort: Essai sur la Finitude", by Hatier, Paris. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction: The Magnitude of Death1Ch. ICulture and Death61Mourning, the origin of culture72Eschatological invention103Tragedy and mortality14Ch. IIThe Metaphysics of Death191Platonic immortality202The Hegelian 'sublation' of death253The metaphysics of becoming30Ch. IIIPhenomenology of Mortal Being391My own death and the death of the other422Death and dying493Death and the possible54Ch. IVMortality and Finitude611Finitude and totality642Finitude and natality703Original finitude76Conclusion: Death, Speech and Laughter81Notes85Bibliography103Index105
