How Are We to Confront Death?: An Introduction to Philosophy

by Francoise Dastur and Françoise Dastur

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242404
• ISBN13: 9780823242405
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"