Immortality and the philosophy of death /
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Imprint: | London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016] |
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Description: | xiv, 243 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10489529 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Is Death Bad for Those That Die?
- 1. Victims
- 2. Reconsidering Categorical Desire Views
- 3. Epicureanism, Extrinsic Badness, and Prudence
- 4. Lucretius and the Fear of Death
- 5. The Harms of Death
- 6. Seeds: On Personal Identity and the Resurrection
- Part II. Living With Death
- 7. Fearing Death as Fearing the Loss of One's Life: Lessons from Alzheimer's Disease
- 8. Constructing Death as a Form of Failure: Addressing Mortality in a Neoliberal Age
- 9. Love and Death
- 10. Learning to be Dead: The Narrative Problem of Mortality
- 11. Love and Death: The Problem of Resilience
- Part III. The Value of an Immortal Life
- 12. Immortality, Identity, and Desirability
- 13. Resources for Overcoming the Boredom of Immortality in Fischer and Kierkegaard
- 14. Immortality and the Exhaustibility of Value
- Index
- About the Contributors