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Living Up to Death
Paul Ricoeur
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Description for Living Up to Death
Hardcover. Contains one essay on the subject of mortality that examines one's own passing as well as one's experience of others dying. This title notes that when thinking about death the imagination is paramount. It posits that the idea of life after death originated in the awareness of our own end posthumously resonating with our survivors. Translator(s): Pellauer, David. Num Pages: 108 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 249.
When French philosopher Paul Ricoeur died in 2005, he bequeathed to the world a highly regarded, widely influential body of work which established him as one of the greatest thinkers of our time. He also left behind a number of unfinished projects that are gathered here and translated into English for the first time. "Living Up to Death" consists of one major essay and nine fragments. Composed in 1996, the essay is the kernel of an unrealized book on the subject of mortality. Likely inspired by his wife's approaching death, it examines not one's own passing but one's experience of ... Read more
When French philosopher Paul Ricoeur died in 2005, he bequeathed to the world a highly regarded, widely influential body of work which established him as one of the greatest thinkers of our time. He also left behind a number of unfinished projects that are gathered here and translated into English for the first time. "Living Up to Death" consists of one major essay and nine fragments. Composed in 1996, the essay is the kernel of an unrealized book on the subject of mortality. Likely inspired by his wife's approaching death, it examines not one's own passing but one's experience of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226713496
SKU
V9780226713496
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About Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. David Pellauer is professor of philosophy at DePaul University and the translator of Ricoeur's The Just; Reflections on the Just; and Memory, History, Forgetting.
Reviews for Living Up to Death
"Ricoeur writes the best kind of philosophy - critical, economical, and clear." - New York Times Book Review "Ricoeur's work on fundamental questions about the nature of human existence made him one of the most eminent philosophers of the twentieth century." - New York Times "One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation.... He was chiefly preoccupied ... Read more