Posthumous Life
Title | Posthumous Life PDF eBook |
Author | Jami Weinstein |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2017-03-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231544324 |
Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future.
Born to Be Posthumous
Title | Born to Be Posthumous PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Dery |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 031645107X |
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.
My Life After Life
Title | My Life After Life PDF eBook |
Author | Galen Stoller |
Publisher | Dream Treader Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780615383071 |
Confronts timeless questions concerning what happens to our loved ones and ourselves after death through the communications of a dead son--Galen Stoller--with his father, Dr. K. Paul Stoller.
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
Title | Posthumous Papers of a Living Author PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2012-04-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1935744488 |
This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.
The Posthumous Life of RW
Title | The Posthumous Life of RW PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Frémon |
Publisher | Omnidawn |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | French fiction |
ISBN | 9781890650711 |
A chapbook of prose poems on existence and the self, with French on facing pages
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics
Title | Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics PDF eBook |
Author | James Stacey Taylor |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0415518849 |
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Luper |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2014-02-13 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1107022878 |
This volume discusses the philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of killing. It will be of interest to all those taking courses on the philosophy of life and death, applied ethics covering abortion, euthanasia, and suicide, and ethics and metaphysics.