Death and finitude : toward a pragmatic transcendental anthropology of human limits and mortality / Sami Pihlström.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pihlström, Sami, author.

Series:

American philosophy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Mortality.

Transcendentalism.

Pragmatism.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

x, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

Death and Finitude: Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality offers and examination and defense of a pragmatic transcendental anthropology applicable to the concepts of limit, finitude, and mortality that are constitutive of human life as we know it. Sami Pihlström develops a special kind of philosophical anthropology-a pragmatic yet transcendental examination of the-human condition-that interprets what is worth preserving in the tradition of transcendental philosophy in such a manner that this unusual combination will crucially enrich our understanding of a human problem we all share: mortality. In some sense, all serious philosophy inevitably reflects, on the human condition and is thus philosophical anthropology, broadly conceived. There can hardly be any more serious problem concerning the human condition than the problem of death. Yet mainstream analytic contributions to the philosophy of death usually address death in general, and it is far from obvious that such contributions are philosophically relevant in the sense of addressing the agony of an individual human being trying to understand their own mortal condition. Continental philosophy of death may be frustrating in a different sense, as it often fails to be conceptually as clear and argumentatively as rigorous as the analytic literature. Claiming to address one's "being-toward-death," such contributions may also fail to speak to the mortal individual if they end up in endless pseudo-philosophical jargon. It is against this background of frustration that Death and Finitude contributes to humanity's on-going reflections on death, dying, and mortality from a pragmatist yet transcendental perspective, seeking to accommodate these topics within a broader philosophical anthropology. This book is primarily intended for academic philosophers, but the potential readership also includes graduate students and advanced undergraduates, as well as general educated readers. It is relevant to the concerns of philosophers specializing in transcendental philosophy, philosophical anthropology, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of religion. In its efforts to "philosophize historically," it should be of interest to both systematically and historically oriented philosophers and students. Book jacket.

Contents:

Mortality and philosophical anthropology

The self as a limit

Death mine or the other's?

Death, guilt, and (in)equality

Controlling death? Pragmatist philosophy of mortality

A pragmatic transcendental anthropology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pihlström, Sami, author. Death and finitude

ISBN:

9781498524414

1498524419

OCLC:

953630853