Trouble with Death
Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene
Seiten
2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529241235 (ISBN)
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529241235 (ISBN)
This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines sociological debates, the cultural construction of death and uses existential phenomenology and Freudian psychology to examine the search for meaning in our finite lives.
Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it? What insights can we gain from the ways death has been imagined, theorized, and organized throughout Western social and intellectual history that might help us respond meaningfully to the climate emergency?
This interdisciplinary study begins with the role of tragedy in Greek antiquity and examines European attitudes toward death, especially their entanglement with colonial atrocities and politically organized killings.
Drawing on the work of philosophers, sociologists, historians, and psychoanalysts, this is a resounding call to confront our responsibility for the lives of others—and the future of life itself—amid the existential threats of the Anthropocene.
Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it? What insights can we gain from the ways death has been imagined, theorized, and organized throughout Western social and intellectual history that might help us respond meaningfully to the climate emergency?
This interdisciplinary study begins with the role of tragedy in Greek antiquity and examines European attitudes toward death, especially their entanglement with colonial atrocities and politically organized killings.
Drawing on the work of philosophers, sociologists, historians, and psychoanalysts, this is a resounding call to confront our responsibility for the lives of others—and the future of life itself—amid the existential threats of the Anthropocene.
Finn Bowring is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.
Introduction
1. Troubles with Death
2. Mortality and Tragedy in Greek Antiquity
3. Plato and the Immortality of the Soul
4. Death in the Second Millennium
5. Death Disavowed
6. The Disclosure of Death
7. Precarious Life
8. The Lives of Others
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Death and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781529241235 / 9781529241235 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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