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Death and Finitude - Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality (Hardcover)
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Death and Finitude - Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality (Hardcover)
Series: American Philosophy Series
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Death and Finitude offers an examination and defense of a pragmatic
transcendental anthropology applicable to the concepts of limit,
finitude, and mortality that are constitutive of human life as we
know it. Sami Pihlstroem develops a special kind of philosophical
anthropology-a pragmatic yet transcendental examination of the
human condition-that interprets what is worth preserving in the
tradition of transcendental philosophy in such a manner that this
unusual combination will crucially enrich our understanding of a
human problem we all share: mortality. In some sense, all serious
philosophy inevitably reflects on the human condition and is thus
philosophical anthropology, broadly conceived. There can hardly be
any more serious problem concerning the human condition than the
problem of death. Yet, mainstream analytic contributions to the
philosophy of death usually addresses death in general, and it is
far from obvious that such contributions are philosophically
relevant in the sense of addressing the agony of an individual
human being trying to understand their own mortal condition.
"Continental" philosophy of death may be frustrating in a different
sense, as it often fails to be conceptually as clear and
argumentatively as rigorous as the analytic literature. Claiming to
address my "being-toward-death", such contributions may also fail
to speak to the mortal individual if they end up in endless
pseudo-philosophical jargon. It is against this background of
frustration that Death and Finitude contributes to humanity's
on-going reflections on death, dying, and mortality-from a
pragmatist yet transcendental perspective, seeking to accommodate
these topics within a broader philosophical anthropology. The book
is primarily intended for academic philosophers, but the potential
readership includes not only scholars but also both graduate
students and advanced undergraduates, as well as general educated
readers. It is relevant to the concerns of philosophers
specializing in transcendental philosophy, philosophical
anthropology, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of
religion. As the book may be said to be an attempt to "philosophize
historically," it is in principle of interest to both
systematically and historically oriented philosophers and students.
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