1st Edition

After Life Recent Philosophy and Death

Edited By Rona Cohen, Ruth Ronen Copyright 2023
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Dreams and fantasies of immorality date back to the first human being who was expelled from the Garden of Eden and fell into time, as Augustine recounts. Falling into time, into mortality, living with the consciousness of death and the decline of the body, bear a terrifying—and yet for some pacifying—burden that comes with the weight of being human. Today, with the advancement of technology,... Read more

Introduction—After Life: Recent Philosophy and Death

Rona Cohen and Ruth Ronen

Death as a Limit to Philosophical Knowledge

1. Scandalous Death

Jean-Luc Nancy

Challenges to Death: Undying

2. The Undying

Galili Shahar

3. The Second Death

Alenka Zupančič

Challenges to the Life/Death Division

4. Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ethics of Finitude

Marie-Eve Morin

5. The Affirmation of Death

Ruth Ronen

6. To Live and Die in History

Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly

Heidegger: With and Beyond

7. Being Toward Death (That Has Already Happened)

Rona Cohen

8. Making Sense with Death: A Response to Heidegger

Hagi Kenaan and Yaron Senderowicz

9. Being, Death, and Machination: Thinking Death with and beyond Heidegger

Daniela Vallega-Neu

The Socio-Political Discourse of Death

10. The Antinomy of Death: Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on Utopia and Hope

Hent de Vries

11. Dying One’s Own Death: Freud with Rilke

Étienne Balibar

Biography

Rona Cohen teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of many articles on Jean-Luc Nancy, Kant, Lacan, and the problem of the body in philosophy. Her areas of interest include continental philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of death.

Ruth Ronen is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel, currently head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies. Her areas of research are the philosophy of art, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, psychoanalytic thought (Freud and Lacan) and possible worlds (as interdisciplinary concept).