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A Death of the World : Surviving the Death of the Other / Harris B. Bechtol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bechtol, Harris B., author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bereavement.
- Deconstruction.
- Existentialism.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Phenomenology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Offers a description of what happens to survivors after a death, based on the effect this death has on the survivor's relation to the spatial and temporal world occupied after the loss of the deceased.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: The Question of Death, Event, and Survival
- Extending Radical Hermeneutics
- The Death of the Other as Event
- A Post-Husserlian Phenomenology
- Why the Death of the Other?
- Part One - Symptoms of an Event
- Chapter One: The Unexpected, Im-possible Event
- Event and Poststructuralism
- Event and Différance: On the Way to the Gift
- Gift and Event
- Chapter Two: The Secretive Event without Reason
- The Leap from Reason
- Saturated Phenomena and/as Events
- Events, Birth, and Possibility
- Chapter Three: The Transformative Event
- Poetic Attestation, Event, and Death
- Die Welt Ist Fort …
- … Ich Muß Dich Tragen
- The World after the Death of the Other
- Part Two - Spatial Transformations of the World
- Chapter Four: Unexpected Loss and Life: The Presence of the Other's Absence
- Spatiality in and beyond Heidegger
- The Unpredictability of the Death of the Other
- Presence and Absence in Memorials
- Chapter Five: Excess and the Death of the Other: Life/Death, Materiality, and Reason
- Derrida on Life and Death, Life or Death, or Life/Death
- Lifedeath, Epigenetics, and Survivor Trees
- The Death of the Other and the Principle of Reason
- Part Three - Temporal Transformations of the World
- Chapter Six: Memories and a Past That Won't Stay Put
- The Death of the Other and Temporality
- The Death of the Other and Haunted Time
- Haunted Temporality and Memory
- Chapter Seven: Lost Possibilities and a Fractured Future
- The Possible Impossibility of Dasein's Death
- The Impossibility of a Future To-Come
- The Impossible and Im-possible Future with the Death of the Other
- Chapter Eight: The Gift of Mourning in a Present Out of Joint
- The Gift of Mourning
- Workless Hospitality and/as Mourning
- Responsibility and Mourning.
- Conclusion: The Afterlife
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798855801897
- OCLC:
- 1511108805
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