The thought of death and the memory of war /

The thought of death and the memory of war / / Marc Crepon ; translated by Michael Loriaux ; preface by Rodolphe Gasch.

" War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars--or more precisely the memories of war--of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end of the world as such that each dea...

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Crepon, M. 1962-
Place / Publishing House:Minneapolis, Minnesota : : University of Minnesota Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
French
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Rodolphe Gasche
  • Introduction. War and the Death Drive: Sigmund Freud
  • 1. Being-toward-Death and Dasein's Solitude: Martin Heidegger
  • 2. Dying-for: Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 3. Vanquishing Death: Emmanuel Levinas
  • 4. Unrelenting War: Jan Patocka
  • 5. The Imaginary of Death: Paul Ricœur
  • 6. Fraternity and Absolute Evil
  • 7. Hospitality and Mortality: Jacques Derrida
  • 8. The Thought of Death and the Image of the Dead
  • Notes
  • Index.

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