Trouble with Death: Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene

Finn Bowring

doi:10.46692/9781529241266

Trouble with Death

Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene

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Finn Bowring, Cardiff University

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781529241266
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529241266

Subjects:: Logic, Philosophy

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This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines sociological debates, the cultural construction of death and uses existential phenomenology and Freudian psychology to examine the search for meaning in our finite lives.

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Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene

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Fontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Troubles with Death
pp 9-28

2 - Mortality and Tragedy in Greek Antiquity
pp 29-50

3 - Plato and the Immortality of the Soul
pp 51-69

4 - Death in the Second Millennium
pp 70-103

5 - Death Disavowed
pp 104-128

6 - The Disclosure of Death
pp 129-170

7 - Precarious Life
pp 171-197

8 - The Lives of Others
pp 198-217

Notes
pp 218-220

References
pp 221-241

Index
pp 242-265

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