Book description
Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive
attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and
Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted
discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the development,
in various texts and contexts, of Kierkegaard's ideas concerning
death. Essays by an international group of scholars take up essential
topics such as dying to the world, living death, immortality, suicide,
mortality and subjectivity, death and the meaning of life, remembrance
of the dead, and the question of the afterlife. While bringing
Kierkegaard's philosophy of death into focus, this volume connects
Kierkegaard with important debates in contemporary philosophy.
"Starting from living death and the thought of death, and
then moving through dying, recollecting the death of another, and
finally future life, this volume brings together in a coherent way
Kierkegaard's view on death and dying." -Andrew J. Burgess,
University of New Mexico
Patrick Stokes is a Marie Curie Fellow in Philosophy at the
University of Hertfordshire and an Honorary Fellow in the School of
Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. He is
author of Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision.
Adam Buben is a Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellow at the Hong
Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Minnesota. He has previously
been a Fulbright Fellow at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre,
University of Copenhagen, and a visiting lecturer in philosophy at the
University of Guam. He has articles published in Kierkegaard and
Religious Pluralism, Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought, and in the
Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources series (forthcoming).
