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Death's following : mediocrity, dirtiness, adulthood, literature /

"Almost all twentieth-century philosophy stresses the immanence of death in human life-as drive (Freud), as the context of Being (Heidegger), as the essence of our defining ethics (Levinas), or as language (de Man, Blanchot). In Death's Following, John Limon makes use of literary analysis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Limon, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Text and Doctrine: Adulthood and Dirtiness --  |t Preliminary Expectoration --  |t Alas a Dirty Third: The Logic of Death --  |t Reasons: Mediocrity, Melancholy, and Play --  |t Thomas Bernhard's Rant --  |t Following Sebald --  |t Tickling the Corpse: Tom Stoppard's Memento Mori --  |t Uses: Coming to Death in Autobiography and Culture --  |t Don Rickles's Rant --  |t Too Late, My Brothers --  |t Re: Barth. 
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