cam a22 4500 279828861 CHVBK 20201012193119.0 130818s2011 xxk 00 0 eng d GBB0-89526 bnb 015611263 Uk 978-0-521-17119-9 (brosch.) 978-0-521-76932-7 (geb.) (SNL)991014174449703976 (NEBIS)009566605 (RERO)R005916919 (Sz)1645837-41snl_51 (Sz)vtls001645837 (Sz)001645837 (OCoLC)610831377 Sz Sz eng fre BD444 .S3936 2011 s1ph rero 100 23sdnb 128/.5 22 Schumacher Bernard N. 1965- (DE-588)12253736X Death and mortality in contemporary philosophy Bernard N. Schumacher ; transl. by Michael J. Miller Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press cop. 2011 XI, 258 S. 24 cm Register Literaturverz. Machine generated contents note: Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction ; 2. Biological death ; 3. So-called 'personal death' ; 4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death ; 5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death ; 6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic ; 7. Conclusion ; Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality ; 9. Heidegger's being-towards-death ; 10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge? ; 11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre ; 12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other ; 13. Death as the object of experience ; Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us?: 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers ; 15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject ; 16. Death: an evil of privation ; Conclusion Confrontations avec la mort "This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism, and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is nothing to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality"-- Provided by publisher Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6 gnd Tod (DE-588)4060294-1 gnd Death (DNLM)D003643 Philosophy (DNLM)D010684 Death (US-DLC) Mort (RERO)A021002205 rero Philosophie (RERO)A021004135 rero 19e siècle-21e siècle (début) (RERO)A022565120 rero Mortalité (RERO)A021005063 rero Philosophie de la nature (RERO)A021004539 rero sb 2011/18 100 snl-sb rero dr-sys A 7.1 h Schumacher Bernard N. 1965- Confrontations avec la mort englisch BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 Metadata rights reserved rero SNL NB001 NB001 N 314303 NB10010 RERO RE01003 RE01003 RE010030001 NA 2011.412+A RERO RE01003 RE01003 RE010030001 NA 2011.412 RERO RE01071 RE01071 RE010710001 DR A 7.1 h SCHU 2011 TDB 64401 NEBIS UBME UBME ULBME BME II.3.6-11 NEBIS N06 N06 N06FH CE 576 NEBIS UTS UTS ULKHE C II schu 2.1 SNL 100 1- Schumacher Bernard N. 1965- (DE-588)12253736X SNL 700 12 Schumacher Bernard N. 1965- Confrontations avec la mort englisch NEBIS 100 1- Schumacher Bernard N. NEBIS 856 -- Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2010030606-t.html NEBIS 856 -- Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2010030606-d.html NEBIS 856 -- Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2010030606-b.html NEBIS 856 -- Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/71199/cover/9780521171199.jpg RERO 100 1- Schumacher Bernard N. 1965- (IDREF)057482381 cre RERO 856 42 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2010030606-b.html SWISSBIB 171392736 ORANGE 279828853