Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions surrounding and analyzing this text. In his essay, Patočka reflects on our relation to the dead and on how the departure of a loved one affects our continued exi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Gustav Strandberg and Hugo Strandberg: Introduction
- 2. Jan Patočka: The Phenomenology of Afterlife
- 3. Jan Frei: To Live after Death: Where? Patočka’s “Phenomenology of Afterlife” and Its Contexts
- 4. Gustav Strandberg: Dying with the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
- 5. Nicolas de Warren: The Intimacy of Disappearance
- 6. Hugo Strandberg: Forgiveness and the Dead
- 7. Tomáš Hejduk: Postmortal Openness to Meaning
- 8. Ondřej Beran: The Other Modern Séances
- 9. Erin Plunkett: What Does It Mean to Love the Dead?
- 10. Lovisa Andén: Between Memory and History: Retracing Historical Knowledge through a Phenomenology of Afterlife
- 11. Antony Fredriksson: Drawing a Line or Blurring the Contour between Animate and Inanimate with Clarice Lispector and Jan Patočka
- 12. Niklas Forsberg: “Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations