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One Beat More
Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality
Taschenbuch von Kevin Aho
Sprache: Englisch

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A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn't given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the things he thought gave his life meaning, such as his independence or his ability to plan his own future, were in tatters.

Aho turned to those thinkers who have reflected deeply on the meaning of life and the anxiety of living when every heartbeat might be your last: the existentialists. Armed with insights from the likes of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and de Beauvoir, he found new meaning and comfort in a view of life that strives for authenticity and accepts aging and death as part of what makes life worthwhile. Existentialism asks us to face the frailty of our existence and to live with a sense of urgency and gratitude toward its manifold beauties. It is only then that we can be released from patterns of self-deception and begin to appreciate what truly matters in our fleeting, precious lives.
A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn't given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the things he thought gave his life meaning, such as his independence or his ability to plan his own future, were in tatters.

Aho turned to those thinkers who have reflected deeply on the meaning of life and the anxiety of living when every heartbeat might be your last: the existentialists. Armed with insights from the likes of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and de Beauvoir, he found new meaning and comfort in a view of life that strives for authenticity and accepts aging and death as part of what makes life worthwhile. Existentialism asks us to face the frailty of our existence and to live with a sense of urgency and gratitude toward its manifold beauties. It is only then that we can be released from patterns of self-deception and begin to appreciate what truly matters in our fleeting, precious lives.
Über den Autor
Kevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and the author of numerous books, including Existentialism: An Introduction (Polity, 2020).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: To Learn how to Die

Chapter 1: Death-Man
Chapter 2: Letting-Go
Chapter 3: A Chasm of Stillness
Chapter 4: The World has become Smaller
Chapter 5: Be the Poet of your Life
Chapter 6: The World in all its Terror
Chapter 7: This Life Countless Times
Chapter 8: Held out into Nothing

Appendix: "The Existentialists"

Notes

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 176 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509546909
ISBN-10: 1509546901
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Aho, Kevin
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 212 x 136 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Kevin Aho
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2022
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
Artikel-ID: 120381889
Über den Autor
Kevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and the author of numerous books, including Existentialism: An Introduction (Polity, 2020).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: To Learn how to Die

Chapter 1: Death-Man
Chapter 2: Letting-Go
Chapter 3: A Chasm of Stillness
Chapter 4: The World has become Smaller
Chapter 5: Be the Poet of your Life
Chapter 6: The World in all its Terror
Chapter 7: This Life Countless Times
Chapter 8: Held out into Nothing

Appendix: "The Existentialists"

Notes

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 176 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509546909
ISBN-10: 1509546901
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Aho, Kevin
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 212 x 136 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Kevin Aho
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2022
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
Artikel-ID: 120381889
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