Trouble with Death - Finn Bowring

Trouble with Death

Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4123-5 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines sociological debates, the cultural construction of death and uses existential phenomenology and Freudian psychology to examine the search for meaning in our finite lives.

Finn Bowring is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

Introduction


1. Troubles with Death


2. Mortality and Tragedy in Greek Antiquity


3. Plato and the Immortality of the Soul


4. Death in the Second Millennium


5. Death Disavowed


6. The Disclosure of Death


7. Precarious Life


8. The Lives of Others

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2025
Reihe/Serie Death and Culture
Zusatzinfo Not illustrated
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5292-4123-5 / 1529241235
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-4123-5 / 9781529241235
Zustand Neuware
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