The Thought of Death and the Memory of War
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Thought of Death and the Memory of War
By (Author) Marc Crpon
Translated by Michael Loriaux
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st February 2014
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Philosophy
Sociology: death and dying
306.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
184
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Marc Crpon pursues a path toward a cosmopolitics of mourning through readings of works by Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Ricoeur, and others. The movement among these writers marks a way throughand againsttwentieth-century interpretation to argue that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without suspending how one relates to the death of another human being.
Author Bio
Marc Crpon is the chair of philosophy at Ecole Normale Suprieure and director of research at the Archives Husserl. He is the author of sixteen books in French.
