LEADER 02541nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910826310003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4283-8 010 $a0-8232-4631-0 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703528 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454166 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703528 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10689820 035 $a(PQKB)10607289 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239640 035 $a(OCoLC)830023763 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14140 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239640 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10571207 035 $a(OCoLC)923763819 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065539 100 $a20120209d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDeath's following $emediocrity, dirtiness, adulthood, literature /$fJohn Limon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-4279-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 8 $aAlmost 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. 606 $aCivilization, Western$y20th century 606 $aCivilization, Western$y21st century 606 $aDeath 606 $aMediocrity 615 0$aCivilization, Western 615 0$aCivilization, Western 615 0$aDeath. 615 0$aMediocrity. 676 $a128/.5 700 $aLimon$b John$01607301 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826310003321 996 $aDeath's following$93933533 997 $aUNINA