The Thought of Death and the Memory of WarAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 10 October 2013
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War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the warsâ?"or more precisely the memories of warâ?"of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victimâ?Ts death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies. Marc CrAcponâ?Ts The Thought of Death and the Memory of War is a call to resist such images in which death is no longer actual death since it happens to anonymous others, and to seek instead a world in which mourning the other whose mortality we always already share points us toward a cosmopolitics. CrAcpon pursues this path toward a cosmopolitics of mourning through readings of works by Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Patocka, Levinas, Derrida, and RicÅ"ur, and others. The movement among these writers, CrAcpon shows, marks a way throughâ?"and againstâ?"twentieth-century interpretation to argue that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without suspending how one relates to the death of another human being. A history of a critical strain in contemporary thought, this book is, as Rodolphe GaschAc says in the Foreword, â?oa profound meditation on what constitutes evil and a rigorous and illuminating reflection on death, community, and world.â?? The translation of this work received financial support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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