Death and Philosophy
Death and Philosophy presents a wide ranging and fascinating variety of different philosophical, aesthetic and literary perspectives on death.\ Death raises key questions such as whether life has meaning of life in the face of death, what the meaning of "life after death" might be and whether death is part of a narrative that can be retold in different ways, and considers the various types of death, such as brain death, that challenge mind-body dualism. The essays also include explorations...
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Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of Bernard Williams or Thomas Nagel; to non-wester approaches such as are exemplified in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and in Daoist thought; to perspectives influenced by Lucretious, Epicurus and Nietzsche.Death and Philosophy will be of great interest to philosphers, or those studying religion and theology, buts its clarity and scope ensures it will be accessible to anyone who has considered what it means to be mortal.
Notes on the contributorsPreface1Death and philosophy: Introduction12My death53Against death164On the purported insignificance of death225Death and the skeleton396Death, the bald scenario507Death as transformation in classical Daoism578Death and enlightenment719Death and detachment8310Death and metaphysics9811Death and authenticity11212Death and the unity of a life12013The antinomy of death13514Death fetishism, morbid solipsism152Notes177References198Index203
