Dying in America.
Publisher: Cadmus Editions
Published: 2002
Place of publication: S.l
Language: eng
Description: Dying in America is a unique work that conjoins an intimate memoir and a philosophic analysis examining death and dying in America. In the memoir, the author, as caring son, chronicles the decay and death of his father, locating that experience in a wider social and philosophical context. In the formal essay, the author, as radical philosopher, provides an analysis of various contemporary theories of adult development, decline and death in America. Those works are subjected to an ideological critique that exposes them as thinly disguised justifications of the oppression of contemporary capitalist culture wherein the living are induced to conform to their alienation and the dying are robbed of their human dignity.