"Alphonso Lingis analyzes with power and depth the meaning of subject, time and nature throught the lens of the death of the other"--Jacket.
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"This book examines the concept of 'dark sound', a strand of contemporary music that links the ideas of death, desire and violence with women's and gender studies"--.
The beginnings of deathbed practice in Japan -- A realm apart -- Exemplary death -- Interpreting the signs -- Anxieties -- Deathbed attendants -- The longue duree of deathbed rites.
This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through early fourteenth centuries. By concentrating one's thoughts on the Buddha in one's last moments, it was said ev…
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on …
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the p…
"En quatorze séances érudites et palpitantes délivrées au cours de l'année 1975-1976, Derrida déconstruit l'opposition traditionnelle entre la vie et la mort à travers des lectures multiples et délibérément pluridisciplinaires, élaborant sa pensée aussi bien au contact de la phi…
Das Phänomen 'Tod' beschäftigte den Menschen zu allen Zeiten, was sich unter anderem darin zeigt, daß der Austausch über den Tod eine beträchtliche Menge an Literatur prägt. Da über den Tod an sich kein Lebender Wissen haben kann, erfolgt dieser Austausch durch alle Kulturen und…