Death's following : mediocrity, dirtiness, adulthood, literature /
Author / Creator: | Limon, John. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. |
Description: | 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8904113 |
Summary: | Almost all twentieth-century philosophy stresses the immanence of death in human life--as drive (Freud), as the context of Being (Heidegger), as the essence of our defining ethics (Levinas), or as language (de Man, Blanchot). In Death's Following , John Limon makes use of literary analysis (of Sebald, Bernhard, and Stoppard), cultural analysis, and autobiography to argue that death is best conceived as always transcendentally beyond ourselves, neither immanent nor imminent. |
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Physical Description: | 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780823242795 (cloth : alk. paper) 082324279X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823242801 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0823242803 (pbk. : alk. paper) |