Death's Following: Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

by John Limon and Jonathan Limon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082324279X
• ISBN13: 9780823242795
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"