The Meaning of Death
Title | The Meaning of Death PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Title | Remembering and Disremembering the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Floris Tomasini |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137538287 |
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.
The Meaning of Death
Title | The Meaning of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Feifel |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Companies |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN |
Birth and Death of Meaning
Title | Birth and Death of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Becker |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1439118426 |
Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
Title | The Death of God and the Meaning of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Young |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2014-05-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1135020906 |
What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the Meaning of Life. Three new chapters explore Søren Kierkegaard’s attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the meaning of life, Karl Marx's attempt to translate this answer into naturalistic and atheistic terms, and Sigmund Freud’s deep pessimism about the possibility of any version of such an answer. Part 1 presents an historical overview of philosophers from Plato to Marx who have believed in a meaning of life, either in some supposed ‘other’ world or in the future of this world. Part 2 assesses what happened when the traditional structures that give life meaning began to erode. With nothing to take their place, these structures gave way to the threat of nihilism, to the appearance that life is meaningless. Young looks at the responses to this threat in chapters on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Foucault and Derrida. Fully revised and updated throughout, this highly engaging exploration of fundamental issues will captivate anyone who’s ever asked themselves where life’s meaning (if there is one) really lies. It also makes a perfect historical introduction to philosophy, particularly to the continental tradition.
The Meaning of Life and Death
Title | The Meaning of Life and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hauskeller |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2019-09-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350073660 |
What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions such as these have been asked for a long time, but nobody has found a conclusive answer yet. The connection between death and meaning, however, has taken centre stage in the philosophical and literary work of some of the world's greatest writers: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus. This book explores their ideas, weaving a rich tapestry of concepts, voices and images, helping the reader to understand the concerns at the heart of those writers' work and uncovering common themes and stark contrasts in their understanding of what kind of world we live in and what really matters in life.
The Meanings of Death
Title | The Meanings of Death PDF eBook |
Author | John Bowker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1993-03-26 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780521447737 |
A major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in Western and Eastern religions is presented by this work's belief that religious and secular attitudes can support and reinforce one another through their attitudes towards death.