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Nous ne sommes pas faits pour la mort

Nous ne sommes pas faits pour la mort

Darras, Jacques

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 2234059011
ISBN13: 9782234059016
Publisher: Stock
Published: Mar 15 2006
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: French

My mother passed away. That is the order of things. Her slow agony, supported by medical care, followed by her cremation, have upset and revolted me. More than ever, we are left without imagination when faced with death. Our societies, solely worried about the actual dying, no longer wish to create an image of death. Whereas poets have shown themselves audacious explorers - the English in particular, with Shakespeare and Donne - and the paintings of Giotto or Van Eyck promise a peaceful hereafter, contemporary artists cover themselves in silence. This refusal to imagine death is legitimised by philosophy: Heidegger transforms the horizon of death into the absolute origin. Hence this fundamental nihilist feeling that overpowers the Earth today. Here we are, having become our own terrorists.
This book, dealing with our difficulty to face death in everyday life, refrains from grandiloquence and affected pathos.
Its author is a poet who shares not only his personal experience with us, but also his familiarity with the great poetical and philosophical texts on death, of which he renders us the essential, using a clear language.

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