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LEADER: 02347cam a22002778a 4500
001 2006039040
003 DLC
005 20070307164753.0
008 061121s2007 pau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006039040
020 $a9780820703961 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780820703978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBD444$b.I74 2007
082 00 $a128/.5$222
100 1 $aIreton, Sean Moore.
245 13 $aAn ontological study of death :$bfrom Hegel to Heidegger /$cSean Ireton.
260 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bDuquesne University Press,$c2007.
263 $a0705
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"Examines conceptions of death in German literature and philosophy arguing that the dialectical thinking of Hegel and Hölderin erases the metaphysical paradigm of death and sets the stage for the existential interpretations advanced by Nietzsche, Rilke, and Heidegger. Identifies and describes common ground in the way death is viewed - as the promise of possibility, freedom, and wholeness"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Models of death : philosophical, historical, and pathological -- Hegel : the dialectic of death -- From dualism to unification : the Bernese and Frankfurt manuscripts (1793-1800) -- Death as negativity : phenomenology of spirit (1806-1807) -- Hegel in France : existentialism and death -- Hölderlin : dialectical death and ontological guilt -- The problem of unification and dialectics -- Dialectal death in hyperion -- The death of Empedocles : genesis and drafts -- Nietzsche : the deaths of Empedocles and Zarathustra -- Empedocles and the problem of tragedy -- The existential function of death in -- Thus spoke Zarathustra and other writings -- Rilke : the holistic recovery of death -- Modes of death : modernity, authenticity, and totality -- The holism of life and death -- Heidegger : the ontology and onticity of death -- The authenticity of thinking and thanking -- The existential-ontological analytic of death in being and time -- The attestation of an authentic being-toward-death : forward-running resoluteness in Heidegger and Hölderlin.
650 0 $aDeath.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Modern.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039040.html