Françoise Dastur Book order

Shows one thinker's debts to and departures from another and reveals the limits of one's approach while highlighting the innovation of another's

This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion's attempt to make sense of death, science's attempt to evade death, and philosophy's attempt to embrace death as a fundamental and defining moment of what it means to be human.

Offering a reading of Heidegger's Being and Time, the author undertakes to reconstruct the very meaning of the ontological question for which the investigation of temporality provides a preliminary answer.