Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being al

The author focuses on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, she discusses how the world becomes ours

Issues surrounding birth and death have been fundamental for Western philosophy as well as for individual existence. The contributors to this volume unravel the

"Examines the work of Goethe, Kleist, and Schiller in the light of Hannah Arendt's concept of natality"--

All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers hav