Heidegger, Plato, Philosophy, Death - An Atmosphere of Mortality

Richard Rojcewicz argues that Heidegger and Plato see the same connection between philosophy and death: philosophizing is dying in the sense of separating oneself from the prison constituted by superficiality and hearsay. Rojcewicz relates this understanding of philosophy to signs, anxiety, conscience, music, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Being and Time as a Platonic Dialogue (On Philosophy and Death)
Chapter 2: Signs and Mortality
Chapter 3: Anxiety and Mortality
Chapter 4: Conscience and Mortality
Chapter 5: Music of Mortality
Chapter 6: Corona-Virus-Disease-2019 and Mortality
Conclusion: Platonic-Heideggerian Intimations of Mortality
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Richard Rojcewicz is former director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University.

Summary

Richard Rojcewicz argues that Heidegger and Plato see the same connection between philosophy and death: philosophizing is dying in the sense of separating oneself from the prison constituted by superficiality and hearsay. Rojcewicz relates this understanding of philosophy to signs, anxiety, conscience, music, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Rojcewicz, Rojcewicz Richard
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781793648402
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-840-2
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias, Abnormal psychology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism