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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    18 December 2024
    05 December 2024
    ISBN:
    9781009480048
    9781009480086
    9781009480031
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009480048
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.66kg, 356 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.25kg, 356 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy
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    Iain D. Thomson is renowned for radically rethinking Heidegger's views on metaphysics, technology, education, art, and history, and in this book, he presents a compelling rereading of Heidegger's important and influential understanding of existential death. Thomson lucidly explains how Heidegger's phenomenology of existential death led directly to the insights which forced him to abandon Being and Time's guiding pursuit of a fundamental ontology, and thus how his early, pro-metaphysical work gave way to his later efforts to do justice to being in its real phenomenological richness and complexity. He also examines and clarifies the often abstruse responses to Heidegger's rethinking of death in Levinas, Derrida, Agamben, Beauvoir, and others, explaining the enduring significance of this work for ongoing efforts to think clearly about death, mortality, education, and politics. The result is a powerful and illuminating study of Heidegger's understanding of existential death and its enduring importance for philosophy and life.

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    ‘Heidegger's existential account of death in Being and Time is one of the most influential yet controversial aspects of his thought.  In this book, Thomson develops in impressive detail a coherent interpretation of Heideggerian death – not just as it figures in Being and Time, but as it also informs his later philosophy.  Rethinking Death is essential reading for anyone interested in human finitude, death, and life.'

    Mark Wrathall - University of Oxford

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