Explores how philosophical thanatology - from Plato to Levinas - relates to psychoanalysis and the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.

Death: An Essay on Finitude

Politics & Social Sciences

Dastur, Françoise

Philosophy

The Athlone Press

Telling Time takes up Heidegger's ideas of a "phenomenological chronology" in an attempt to pose the question of the possibility of a phenomenological language that would be given over to the "temporality of being" and the finitude of existence. The book combines a discussion of approaches to language in the philosophical tradition with readings of Husserl on temporality and the early and late texts of Heidegger's on logic, truth and the nature of language. As well as Heidegger's "deconstruction" of logic and metaphysics Dastur's work is informed by Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence and Nietzschean genealogy. Appealing as much to Humboldt's philosophy of language as to H÷derlin's poetic thought, the book illuminates the eminently dialectical structure of speech and its essential connection with mortality.

Telling Time: Sketch of a Phenomenological Chronology (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Questions of Phenomenology: Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Françoise Dastur is well respected in France and Europe for her mastery of phenomenology as a movement and her clear and cogent explications of phenomenology in movement. These qualities are on display in this remarkable volume. Dastur guides the reader through a series of phenomenological questions―language and logic, self and other, temporality and history, finitude and mortality―that also call phenomenology itself into question, testing its limits and pushing it in new directions. Like Merleau-Ponty, Dastur sees phenomenology not as a doctrine, a catalogue of concepts and catchphrases authored by a single thinker, but as a movement in which several thinkers participate, each inflecting the movement in unique ways. In this regard, Dastur is both one of the clearest guides to phenomenology and one of its ablest practitioners.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Fordham University Press

Confronting death means looking it squarely in the face. Contemporary society refuses to do so, preferring to hide it and hide from it. Funeral rites no longer function as a way to mediate death or to maintain a link between the living and dead. Today the disappearance of certain funerary practices attests to the denial of death as such. They reflect a preference for focusing on remembering the life of the deceased in order to neutralize death, thus displacing the value of mourning, now viewed as something to be done as quickly as possible. Moreover, science, like religion before it and like the contemporary "cult of the body," has fed our fantasies about immortality, promising us longer lives of better quality, and even the possibility of conquering death altogether.Despite all these attempts to overcome or neutralize death, humanity has been unable to eliminate its anxiety about death and nothingness. True to her roots in phenomenology, Dastur not only examines these contemporary tendencies with a critical eye but also argues that we must once again learn to assume death, to become mortal, to learn how to die. Death is not the last moment of human life, but rather its essential attribute. Dastur's skill as a "translator" of phenomenology into accessible and clear prose is nowhere more apparent than in her "little book on death"-indeed, the intended audience is less those who specialize in phenomenology or academic philosophy than a nonspecialist public hungry for philosophical reflection on what is closest to us. And nothing is closer to us than the ever-present possibility of our own imminent death. As its subtitle suggests, this book is an "introduction to philosophy," one that obliges the reader to ask what it means to be human and to embrace death and mortality as the defining essence of our humanity.

How Are We to Confront Death?: An Introduction to Philosophy (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (FUP))

Vallier, Robert

Confronting death means looking it squarely in the face. Contemporary society refuses to do so, preferring to hide it and hide from it. Funeral rites no longer function as a way to mediate death or to maintain a link between the living and dead. Today the disappearance of certain funerary practices attests to the denial of death as such. They reflect a preference for focusing on remembering the life of the deceased in order to neutralize death, thus displacing the value of mourning, now viewed as something to be done as quickly as possible. Moreover, science, like religion before it and like the contemporary “cult of the body,” has fed our fantasies about immortality, promising us longer lives of better quality, and even the possibility of conquering death altogether. Despite all these attempts to overcome or neutralize death, humanity has been unable to eliminate its anxiety about death and nothingness. True to her roots in phenomenology, Dastur not only examines these contemporary tendencies with a critical eye but also argues that we must once again learn to assume death, to become mortal, to learn how to die. Death is not the last moment of human life, but rather its essential attribute. Dastur’s skill as a “translator” of phenomenology into accessible and clear prose is nowhere more apparent than in her “little book on death”―indeed, the intended audience is less those who specialize in phenomenology or academic philosophy than a nonspecialist public hungry for philosophical reflection on what is closest to us. And nothing is closer to us than the ever-present possibility of our own imminent death. As its subtitle suggests, this book is an “introduction to philosophy,” one that obliges the reader to ask what it means to be human and to embrace death and mortality as the defining essence of our humanity.

How Are We to Confront Death?: An Introduction to Philosophy (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

"It is a real joy to be guided by Francoise Dastur in a reading of Heidegger's Being and Time, one of the greatest books of this century. With an exceptional competence, rigorous analysis, and a great clarity of expression, she first undertakes to reconstruct the very meaning of the ontological question for which the investigation of temporality provides a preliminary answer." --Paul Ricoeur

Heidegger and the Question of Time (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

Humanities Press

La mort. Essai sur la finitude

Essays & Correspondence

Ce que Holderlin cherche a montrer dans sa poesie, dans ses essais poetologiques et philosophiques, tout comme dans ses traductions de l'OEdipe-Roi et de l'Antigone de Sophocle et les Remarques qui les accompagnent, c'est la necessite d'accomplir ce qu'il nomme le retournement natal , qui consiste a abandonner la direction antinaturelle de la culture a ses debuts pour l'orientation vers le naturel. Alors que pour le Grec, le retournement natal s'accomplit de maniere tragique et dans la mort, pour le Moderne, il a le sens d'une assomption de la finitude et de l'existence terrestre. C'est la raison pour laquelle la poesie lyrique est dans la modernite plus appropriee que la tragedie a l'exposition de ce mouvement qui reconduit l'etre humain a la prise en garde de ses limites. Il ne s'agit pourtant pas, pour le poete moderne, de simplement chercher la reconciliation avec la nature, mais de la celebrer a travers l'epreuve de son inaccessibilite au cours de la nuit sacree de la modernite dont le divin s'est absente. Dans cette nouvelle edition s'ajoutent, aux textes des deux cours publies en 1997, ceux de conferences ponctuelles qui furent consacrees a l'approfondissement de certains points fondamentaux de l'interpretation qui est proposee ici de l'oeuvre de Holderlin.

Hölderlin, le retournement natal: Tragédie et modernité, Nature et poésie & autres essais (Encre Marine) (French Edition)

Les Belles Lettres

On sait que, depuis la parution des Recherches logiques de Husserl, le terme de phenomenologie ne designe plus, comme c'etait encore le cas chez Hegel, une discipline particuliere, mais une nouvelle conception de ce que doit etre la philosophie. Ce qui a en effet donne a l'entreprise husserlienne sa fecondite, c'est l'idee, reprise aux anciens, que le travail philosophique doit etre mene en commun et exige par consequent le concours de plusieurs penseurs. Mais ce qui rassemble ceux-ci, c'est moins l'unite d'une doctrine et l'appartenance a une ecole de pensee que la pratique d'une methode. De ce mouvement phenomenologique, auquel appartiennent tant de philosophes du siecle dernier, il n'est certes pas question de dresser un iventaire exhaustif. Ce que l'on se propose simplement ici, c'est d'en donner un apercu qui mette d'ailleurs moins l'accent sur les noms propres des penseurs que sur les problemes qu'ils ont partages. Les essais reunis dans ce volume sont en effet tous consacres a un petit nombre de questions fondamentales - celles du langage et de la logique, du moi et de l'autre, de la temporalite et de l'histoire, de la finitude et de la mortalite -, au sujet desquelles un dialogue a paru se nouer entre certaines des figures les plus eminentes de la nebuleuse phenomenologique: Husserl et Heidegger surtout, mais aussi Fink, Patocka, Merleau-Ponty, et plus pres encore de nous, Gadamer, Levinas, Ricoeur.

La Phenomenologie En Questions: Langage, Alterite, Temporalite, Finitude (Problemes & Controverses) (French Edition)

Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin

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Death: An Essay on Finitude

Telling Time: Sketch of a Phenomenological Chronology (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Questions of Phenomenology: Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Questions of Phenomenology: Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

How Are We to Confront Death?: An Introduction to Philosophy (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (FUP))

How Are We to Confront Death?: An Introduction to Philosophy (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Heidegger and the Question of Time (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

La mort. Essai sur la finitude

Hölderlin, le retournement natal: Tragédie et modernité, Nature et poésie & autres essais (Encre Marine) (French Edition)

La Phenomenologie En Questions: Langage, Alterite, Temporalite, Finitude (Problemes & Controverses) (French Edition)