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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798778503321

Autore

Pihlström Sami

Titolo

Death and finitude : toward a pragmatic transcendental anthropology of human limits and mortality / / Sami Pihlström

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-2442-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

American Philosophy Series

Disciplina

128/.5

Soggetti

Death

Mortality

Pragmatism

Transcendentalism

Philosophical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Mortality and Philosophical Anthropology; Chapter Three: The Self as a Limit; Chapter Four: Death-Mine or the Other's?; Chapter Five: Death, Guilt, and (In)equality; Chapter Six: Controlling Death?; Chapter Seven: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book integrates pragmatism and transcendental philosophy in examining the most serious problem defining the human condition, death and mortality. Its analysis of human limits and finitude is intended to be relevant to the concerns of philosophers specializing in, for example, transcendental philosophy, philosophical anthropology, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of religion. Mortality is studied as providing a necessary framework within which questions concerning the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of human life become possible.