The thought of death and the memory of war

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957107303321
• Autore: Crépon M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-4529-3991-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 pages)
• Disciplina: 128/.5
• Soggetti: Death; War; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion; Speculative Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. War and the Death Drive -- 1. Being-toward-Death and Dasein's Solitude -- 2. Dying-for -- 3. Vanquishing Death -- 4. Unrelenting War -- 5. The Imaginary of Death -- 6. Fraternity and Absolute Evil -- 7. Hospitality and Mortality -- 8. The Thought of Death and the Image of the Dead -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Marc Crépon pursues a path toward a cosmopolitics of mourning through readings of works by Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Ricoeur, and others. The movement among these writers marks a way through--and against--twentieth-century interpretation to argue that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without suspending how one relates to the death of another human being.