02544nam 2200613Ia 450 991078867840332120230802002319.00-8232-4283-80-8232-4631-0(CKB)3240000000065539(SSID)ssj0000703528(PQKBManifestationID)11454166(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703528(PQKBWorkID)10689820(PQKB)10607289(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107471(MiAaPQ)EBC3239640(OCoLC)830023763(MdBmJHUP)muse14140(Au-PeEL)EBL3239640(CaPaEBR)ebr10571207(OCoLC)923763819(EXLCZ)99324000000006553920120209d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrDeath's following[electronic resource] mediocrity, dirtiness, adulthood, literature /John LimonNew York Fordham University Press20121 online resource (196 p.) illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8232-4279-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary expectoration -- Alas a dirty third: the logic of death -- Thomas Bernhard's rant -- Following Sebald -- Tickling the corpse: Tom Stoppard's memento mori -- Don Rickles's rant -- Too late, my brothers -- Re: Barth.Almost all 20th century philosophy stresses the immanence of death - as drive, as the context of Being, as the essence of humanity's defining ethics or language. Limon makes use of literary analysis (Sebald, Bernhard, Stoppard), cultural analysis, and autobiography to argue that death is best conceived as always unfathomably beyond ourselves, neither immanent nor (in principle) imminent. Thus he rejects the courage of 20th century death philosophy - bravely facing death within life - as an evasion of the real inhuman facelessness of death.Civilization, Western20th centuryCivilization, Western21st centuryDeathMediocrityCivilization, WesternCivilization, WesternDeath.Mediocrity.128/.5Limon John1516271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788678403321Death's following3752626UNINA