Living up to death
By: Paul Ricoeur ; translated by David Pellauer.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780226713496
Subjects: Ricœur, Paul; Death; Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Philosophy, French -- 20th century; Christianity -- Meditations
Genres: Meditations.
Work titles: Vivant jusqu'à la mort.
Description: "When French philosopher Paul Ricoeur died in 2005, he bequeathed to the world a highly regarded, widely influential body of work which established him as one of the greatest thinkers of our time. ... [book title] consists of one major essay and nine fragments. Composed in 1996, the essay is the kernal of an unrealized book on the subject of mortality. Likely inspired by his wife's approaching death, it examines not one's own passing but one's experience of others dying. ... [book title] is a moving testimony to Ricoeur's willingness to confront his own mortality with serious questions, a touching insouciance, and hope for the future."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Olivier Abel; title: Editors' note / by Catherine Goldenstein and Jean-Louis Schlegel; title: Up to death; title: Mourning and cheerfulness; title: Fragments; title: Postface / by Catherine Goldenstein.