TY  - GEN
T1  - The thought of death and the memory of war
A1  - Crépon, M. (Marc), 1962-
LA  - English
LA  - French
PP  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn861199864
AB  - "War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars--or more precisely the memories of war--of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies. Marc Crepon's The Thought of Death and the Memory of War is a call to resist such images in which death is no longer actual death since it happens to anonymous others, and to seek instead a world in which mourning the other whose mortality we always already share points us toward a cosmopolitics. Crepon pursues this path toward a cosmopolitics of mourning through readings of works by Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Patocka, Levinas, Derrida, and Ric & oelig;ur, and others. The movement among these writers, Crepon shows, marks a way through--and against--twentieth-century interpretation to argue that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without suspending how one relates to the death of another human being. A history of a critical strain in contemporary thought, this book is, as Rodolphe Gasche says in the Preface, "a profound meditation on what constitutes evil and a rigorous and illuminating reflection on death, community, and world." The translation of this work received financial support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs."--
CN  - BD444 .C7313 2013eb
SN  - 9781461948049
SN  - 1461948045
SN  - 9781452939919
SN  - 1452939918
SN  - 1299990355
SN  - 9781299990357
SN  - 9780816680054
SN  - 0816680051
SN  - 9780816680061
SN  - 081668006X
KW  - Death.
KW  - War.
KW  - Death
KW  - Armed Conflicts
KW  - Mort.
KW  - Guerre.
KW  - deaths.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : General.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Movements : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Death & Dying.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Movements : Humanism.
KW  - War
ER  -