War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars--or
more precisely the memories of war--of the twentieth century,
images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others
eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end
of the world as such that each death signifies.
Marc Crepon's "The Thought of Death and the Memory of War" is a
call to resist such images in which death is no longer actual death
since it happens to anonymous others, and to seek instead a world
in which mourning the other whose mortality we always already share
points us toward a cosmopolitics. Crepon pursues this path toward a
cosmopolitics of mourning through readings of works by Freud,
Heidegger, Sartre, Patocka, Levinas, Derrida, and Ricoeur, and
others. The movement among these writers, Crepon shows, marks a way
through--and against--twentieth-century interpretation to argue
that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without
suspending how one relates to the death of another human
being.
A history of a critical strain in contemporary thought, this
book is, as Rodolphe Gasche says in the Foreword, "a profound
meditation on what constitutes evil and a rigorous and illuminating
reflection on death, community, and world."
The translation of this work received financial support from the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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