Political theory on death and dying : key thinkers /: key thinkers. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale, Bruce Peabody.
• Editors: Dolgoy, Erin A; Hale, Kimberly Hurd, 1983-; Peabody, Bruce Garen, 1969-
• Contents: Introduction Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale, and Bruce Peabody 1. Memory and Mortality in Homer’s Odyssey Rachel K. Alexander 2. Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee 3. ‘Every Form of Death’: Thucydides on Death’s Political Presence Daniel Schillinger 4. Mortality, Recollection, and Human Dignity in Plato Ann Ward 5. Good Old Age: Aristotle and the ‘Virtues’ of Aging Marlene K. Sokolon 6. The Buddha, Death, and Taxes Matthew J. Moore 7. Flourishing toward Dissolution: Epicurus on the Resilience of Tranquility Alex R Gillham 8. The Political Philosophy of Death in Laozi Peng Yu 9. The Bhagavad Gītā and Paradox of Death Stuart Gray 10. Life and Death as a Political Act: Cicero and the Stoics Carly T. Herold 11. Prenatal and Posthumous Nonexistence: Lucretius on the Harmlessness of Death Taylor W. Cyr 12. The Road to Freedom: Seneca on Fear, Reason, and Death J. Michael Hoffpauir 13. Continuity Without Corruption: The Political Theology of Death in St. Augustine James R. Stoner, Jr. 14. Jihād for the City: How Alfarabi Discourages, and Encourages, Death in Battle Alexander Orwin 15. Techniques for the Social Self: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Remembrance of Death Sean Hanretta 16. Death and Dying, Mortality and Immortality in Moses Maimonides Joshua Parens 17. The Young, the Old, and the Immortal: Machiavelli on Political Health and Aging Faisal Baluch 18. Death in Montaigne’s Essays Brandon Turner 19. When ‘Every Third Thought Shall Be My Grave’: Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest Mary P. Nichols 20. Francis Bacon on ‘the Dolours of Death’ Erin A. Dolgoy 21. Descartes On How We Should Relate to Death Frans Svensson 22. ‘The Wages of Sin’: Morality and Mortality in John Milton’s Paradise Lost Kimberly Hurd Hale 23. A Liberation From Fear: Benedict de Spinoza on Religion, Philosophy, and Mortality Aaron L. Herold 24. Thomas Hobbes on the Uses and Disadvantages of Death for Political Life Bradley R. Jackson 25. The Role of Death and Eternity in Locke’s Political Philosophy Jack Clinton Byham 26. Montesquieu on Death, Liberty, and Law Trevor Shelley 27. Can Philosophy Console Us?: Hume’s Understanding of Mortality Stephen Wirls 28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Fear of Death and the Happiness of Life Daniel Cullen 29. Adam Smith and Dying Peacefully Maria Pia Paganelli 30. Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke Lauren K. Hall 31. Kant on Death and the Purpose of Human Life Jeffrey Church 32. Overcoming the Mortal Diseases and Short Lives of Republican Governments: Publius and Political Immortality Bruce Peabody 33. Hegel on Death and the Spirit Cecil L. Eubanks 34. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love Jamie Aroosi 35. Immortality and Angst in Tocqueville’s America Benjamin T. Lynerd 36. ‘What is Odious in Death Is not Death Itself, but the Act of Dying’: John Stuart Mill on the Political Philosophy of Death and Dying Helen McCabe 37. Death and Dynamism in Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy Laura K. Field 38. Facing Death Fearlessly, So Others Can Live Without Fear: Gandhi’s Philosophy as Art of Dying Veena R. Howard 39. ‘An Earthly Immortality’: Arendt on Mortality, Politics, and Political Death Michael Christopher Sardo 40. Death in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time Mark Menaldo 41. Make Live and Let Die: Michel Foucault, Biopower, and the Art of Dying Well Tom Roach 42. Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Death and Aging Kiki Berk 43. Metamorphoses: Gilles Deleuze on Living and Death Chas. Phillips 44. Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and Mourning Marguerite La Caze 45. Alasdair MacIntyre and the Twilight of the Virtues John W. Schiemann
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 128.5; Death; Death -- Political aspects; Political science -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000451788; 9781000451757; 9781003005384
• Related ISBNs: 9780367437411
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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