Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature
| Author | : John Limon |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2012-07-02 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780823242795 |
| ISBN-13 | : 082324279X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
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.
