The limits of death : between philosophy and psychoanalysis /
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| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | xxiv, 254 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4401059 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Editors' foreword
- Death. A preface
- Part 1. Death and philosophy
- 1. To die laughing
- 2. The impossibility of Levinas's death
- 3. Rigor mortis: the thirteen stations of philosophy's passion
- Part 2. The body of death
- 4. Dead time (a ghost story)
- 5. Death's incessant motion
- 6. Freud's metapsychology of the drives and the transmutability of death
- 7. Liebestod: sex, death and Wagnerian androgyny
- 8. The last hours
- Part 3. Death and testimony
- 9. Execution and fiction
- 10. Of ghostwriting and possession: translating 'my father', or s'expliquer avec la mort
- 11. Deadly tales
- 12. To be announced
- Index
