The thought of death and the memory of war / Marc Crépon ; translated by Michael Loriaux ; foreword by Rodolphe Gasch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crépon, M. (Marc), 1962- author.

Contributor:

Loriaux, Michael Maurice, translator.

Standardized Title:

Vivre avec. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Death.

War.

Physical Description:

xxi, 165 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Summary:

" War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars--or more precisely the memories of war--of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies. Marc Crepon's The Thought of Death and the Memory of War is a call to resist such images in which death is no longer actual death since it happens to anonymous others, and to seek instead a world in which mourning the other whose mortality we always already share points us toward a cosmopolitics. Crepon pursues this path toward a cosmopolitics of mourning through readings of works by Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Patocka, Levinas, Derrida, and Ricœur, and others. The movement among these writers, Crepon shows, marks a way through--and against--twentieth-century interpretation to argue that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without suspending how one relates to the death of another human being. A history of a critical strain in contemporary thought, this book is, as Rodolphe Gasche says in the Preface, "a profound meditation on what constitutes evil and a rigorous and illuminating reflection on death, community, and world." The translation of this work received financial support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Contents

Preface

Rodolphe Gasche

Introduction. War and the Death Drive: Sigmund Freud

1. Being-toward-Death and Dasein's Solitude: Martin Heidegger

2. Dying-for: Jean-Paul Sartre

3. Vanquishing Death: Emmanuel Levinas

4. Unrelenting War: Jan Patocka

5. The Imaginary of Death: Paul Ricœur

6. Fraternity and Absolute Evil

7. Hospitality and Mortality: Jacques Derrida

8. The Thought of Death and the Image of the Dead

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Translated from French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816680054

0816680051

9780816680061

081668006X

OCLC:

840465545