Death and Philosophy by Malpas, Jeff -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page The Contributors Preface 1: Death and Philosophy Introduction 2: My Death Reflections on My Journey into Non-being 3: Against Death the Case of Elias Canetti

4: On The Purported Insignificance of Death Whistling Before the Dark?

The Dialectics Of Dying ‘Experientialism’ Experientialism and Death Putting an End to the Whistling: Rejecting Experientialism Premortem Concerns about Posthumous Events Posthumous Concerns Versus Negative Attitudes toward Death Two Kinds of Neutrality: Zero-sum Games and Radical Incommensurability Deprivation: a Janus-headed Misfortune Corpses are not Persons An Experiential Account of Painless Calamities Dying Versus Being Dead Events and Conditions Destruction is Not Change In Conclusion, Inconclusion

5: Death and the Skeleton

Aestheticizing the Skeleton Death Versus the Aesthetics of the Life Story Temporality and Ethical Thought

6: Death, the Bald Scenario

The Questions The Fictions that Shape Us How theDemocratic Myth Killed the Afterlife Two Cheers For Democracy My Modest Proposal

7: Death as Transformation In Classical Daoism

The Unreality of Death The Correlativity of Life and Death The Unremarkability of Death Death As Life The Language of Death Death In the Daodejing Death In the Zhuangzi

Montaigne A Matter of Life-and-death The Death In-breath Death In Life Departing Life Learning Dying Back To the Moment

10: Death and Metaphysics Heidegger On Nothingness and the Meaning of Being

Authenticity and Inauthenticity Anxiety—Nothingness and Death What is Nothingness?—Nothingness and Being Nothingness and Da-sein Nothingness and Autonomy Being and Nothingness

11: Death and Authenticity 12: Death and the Unity of A Life 13: the Antinomy of Death 14: Death Fetishism, Morbid Solipsism

Thinking Death In theFace The Denial of Death: A Brief History From the Denial of Death To Death Fetishism The Grim Reaper Has No Clothes: ‘Death is Nothing’ The Reaper Redux: Death As Paradox Fearing Death: What’s To Be Afraid Of? The Social Dimension of Death

Notes

1: Death and Philosophy: Introduction 2: My Death 3: Against Death 4: On thePurported Insignificance of Death 5: Death and the Skeleton 6: Death: the Bald Scenario 7: Death as Transformation In Classical Daoism 8: Death and Enlightenment 9: Death and Detachment 10: Death and Metaphysics 11: Death and Authenticity 12: Death and the Unity of a Life 13: the Antinomy of Death 14: Death Fetishism, Morbid Solipsism

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