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The Event of Death: A Phenomenological Enquiry

The Event of Death: A Phenomenological Enquiry

Leman-Stefanovic, I.

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Series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, Book 23

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ISBN10: 9401080682
ISBN13: 9789401080682
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 20 2011
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Building upon the preliminary conception of Phenomenology introduced by Heidegger in section II of the Introduction to Sein und zeit, l one may say that a phenomenology of death would mean: to let death, as that which shows itself, be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. Does this mean then, that a properly phenomenological d- cription of death may reveal to us what death as a factical event is like in the very way in which it shows itself from itself? Although I cannot experience my death in order to describe it, may some kind of phenomenologica'l inference or extrapolation2 be the condition for a unique and privileged revelation of what it is like to be dead? There is an important element of phenomenological descr- tion which renders such an extrapolation implausible, and it involves what Husserl originally called the reduction to signi- cance or meaning. It can never be true for the phenomenologist, 1 Heidegger, Martin, Sein und zeit, p. 34. e. t. page 58. 2 Henry W. Johnstone Jr. thinks that while one cannot extrapo- late from the experience of sleep to the experience of death, it may be possible to extrapolate from the phenomeno- lQgy of sleep to the phenomenology of death. Cf. H. W. John- stone Jr., Toward a Phenomenology of Death, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, 1975, pages 396-7. Cf.

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