Death and mortality in contemporary philosophy /

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Author / Creator:	Schumacher, Bernard N.
Uniform title:	Confrontations avec la mort. English
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (257 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Death. Death. Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism. Death. mort -- nature (philosophie) -- 19e s. -- 21e s. (début) mortalité -- 19e s. -- 21e s. (début) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831276

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ISBN:	9780511780028 0511780028 9780511910012 0511910010 9780521769327 0521769329 9780521171199 0521171199
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism, and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is nothing to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality"--
Other form:	Print version: Schumacher, Bernard N. Confrontations avec la mort. English. Death and mortality in contemporary philosophy. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521769327

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