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Trouble with Death: Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene
 
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ISBN13:9781529241235
ISBN10:1529241235
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:288 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:666 g
Language:English
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Trouble with Death

Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene
 
Edition number: First Edition
Publisher: Bristol University Press
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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.

Table of Contents:

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