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Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Adam Buben
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Description for Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
Death is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy, and this attention has resulted in diverse and complex views on death and what comes after. In Meaning and Mortality, Adam Buben offers a remarkably useful new framework for understanding the ways in which philosophy has discussed death by focusing first on two traditional strains in the discussion, the Platonic and the Epicurean. After providing a thorough account of this ancient dichotomy, he describes the development of an alternative means of handling death in Søren Kierkegaard and ... Read more
Death is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy, and this attention has resulted in diverse and complex views on death and what comes after. In Meaning and Mortality, Adam Buben offers a remarkably useful new framework for understanding the ways in which philosophy has discussed death by focusing first on two traditional strains in the discussion, the Platonic and the Epicurean. After providing a thorough account of this ancient dichotomy, he describes the development of an alternative means of handling death in Søren Kierkegaard and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810132504
SKU
V9780810132504
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About Adam Buben
Adam Buben is an assistant professor of comparative philosophy at Leiden University College in the Netherlands.
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