Memento mori as Repetition of Finitude: Death beyond Heidegger and Levinas
Exemplified especially by Heidegger and Levinas, the phenomenology of death expresses first, the impossibility of the death experience, second, the authenticity of Dasein starting from the horizon opened by the possibility of death, and third, the relevance of the death of the other to the discovery...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Diakrisis
Year: 2021, Volume: 4, Pages: 29-37 |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology of Death
B Memento mori B Emmanuel Levinas B Resurrection of Christ B Martin Heidegger B Christian Revelation |
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| Summary: | Exemplified especially by Heidegger and Levinas, the phenomenology of death expresses first, the impossibility of the death experience, second, the authenticity of Dasein starting from the horizon opened by the possibility of death, and third, the relevance of the death of the other to the discovery of one’s own death. This article tries to take a step further, showing the link between the authenticity of Dasein and the desire for immortality manifested in this authenticity. By overturning Heidegger’s theses and by affirming both the necessity of an authentication of death itself—in accord with Socrates’s death example—and the legitimacy of the meditation on death, this text links the need for immortality, which is phenomenologically visible, with the Christian faith in the resurrection, which is visible only for theology. |
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| ISSN: | 2601-7415 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Diakrisis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24193/diakrisis.2021.2 |
