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Death´s Following: Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

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Description for Death´s Following: Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature Paperback. Argues that death is best conceived as always transcendentally beyond ourselves, neither immanent nor imminent Num Pages: 212 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.

Almost all twentieth-century philosophy stresses the immanence of death in human life—as drive (Freud), as the context of Being (Heidegger), as the essence of our defining ethics (Levinas), or as language (de Man, Blanchot). In Death’s Following, John Limon makes use of literary analysis (of Sebald, Bernhard, and Stoppard), cultural analysis, and autobiography to argue that death is best conceived as always transcendentally beyond ourselves, neither immanent nor imminent.
Adapting Kierkegaard’s variations on the theme of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac while refocusing the emphasis onto Isaac, Limon argues that death should be imagined as if hiding at the end ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823242801
SKU
V9780823242801
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About John Limon
John Limon is John J. Gibson Professor of English and chair of the English Department at Williams College. His previous books are The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science, Writing After War, and Stand-Up Comedy in Theory.

Reviews for Death´s Following: Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature
"My pleasure in reading Death's Following, my pleasure also in the painful truths it kept recalling, is the pleasure of reading something genuinely great. I can't remember the last time a book haunted and changed my thinking so much."
-William Flesch Brandeis University "...unimpeachably brilliant, a marvelous addition to the discourse about contemporary literature..."
-Jonathan Freedman University of ... Read more

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