Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780823242795
ISBN-13 : 082324279X
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Book Synopsis Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature by : John Limon

Download or read book Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature written by John Limon and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death's Following refuses the call of twentieth-century philosophy to face death heroically, advocating instead the mediocrity of Heidegger's "they-self" and its inauthentic, distanced relation to death. Through literary criticism and autobiography, the book considers mediocrity the privileged site for imagining eternal absence: mediocrity as practice for being forgotten.


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