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How Death Shapes Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2025

Susanna Siegel
Susanna Siegel*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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*Corresponding author. Email: ssiegel@fas.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Life and death: they’re opposites. But each one can be defined by the other. That means death shapes life. But how? When things go well, death shapes life from the background of our awareness. This fact has profound consequences for every facet of life: politics and governance, interpersonal relationships, and all forms of human consciousness.

Keywords

deathhorizonsfascismCotard syndrome
Type
Research Article
Information
Think , Volume 24 , Issue 70 , Summer 2025 , pp. 5 - 8
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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