Death's Following : : Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature /

Death's Following : : Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature / / John Limon.

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Almost all twentieth-century philosophy stresses the immanence of death in human life—as drive (Freud), as the context of Being (Heidegger), as the essence of our defining ethics (Levinas), or as language (de Man, Blanchot). In Death’s Following, John Limon makes use of literary analysis (of Sebald,...

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Limon, John,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.) :; 2 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Text and Doctrine: Adulthood and Dirtiness
  • 1. Preliminary Expectoration
  • 2. Alas a Dirty Third: Th e Logic of Death
  • Reasons: Mediocrity, Melancholy, and Play
  • 3. Thomas Bernhard’s Rant
  • 4. Following Sebald
  • 5. Tickling the Corpse: Tom Stoppard’s Memento Mori
  • Uses: Coming to Death in Autobiography and Culture
  • 6. Don Rickles’s Rant
  • 7. Too Late, My Brothers
  • 8. Re: Barth
  • Notes
  • Index

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