Death: An Essay on Finitude

by John Llewelyn, Francoise Dastur, Françoise Dastur

Plato's Phaedo, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Heidegger's Being and Time are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the ideas that to practice philosophy is to practice how to die. This study traces how these variations are connected with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including Neitzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and levinas. The book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0485114879
• ISBN13: 9780485114874
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: The Athlone Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"