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Death: An Essay on Finitude

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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 idea that to practise philosophy is to practise how to die. Francoise Dastur's 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 Nietzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. Professor Dastur also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.

116 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

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March 30, 2020
Philosophy in time of coronavirus.

"C’est pourquoi le confinement ne change pas grand-chose pour nous. Ce qui nous manque le plus, toutefois, c’est de ne pas pouvoir rendre visite à nos amis".
Françoise Dastur

“Avec cette crise, la civilisation du loisir va être très profondément remise en question”
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October 31, 2023
dusunen ve konusan bir varlik olarak insandir "ölüye sımsıkı sarılmaya itilen " .
,ruhun ölümsüzlüğüne inanma rizikosu girilmeye değer bir risktir, ustelik soz konusu diyalogu ruhlarin ölümden sonraki akibetine yonelik izahla kapatan eskatolojik mit , olum korkusunu defetme isine girisen bir büyülü söz rolünü ustlenir.
Mesele ölümden sıvışmak değil onunla yuz yuze bakmaktir, ölümün olumsuzluğunu mesken tutmaktir.
Ölüm Sonluluk Hakkinda bir Deneme Francoise Dastur.
Aristo, Platon, Heidegger, Spinoza , Hegel ve daha pek cok filozofun olume , olum korkusuna bakisini anlatan kitabi ancak bu meselelere kafa yoranlar okur. Kolay bir metin degil. Ilginiz varsa okuyun.
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