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Death’s Following refuses the call of twentieth-century philosophy to face death heroically, advocating instead the mediocrity of Heidegger’s “they-self” and its inauthentic, distanced relation to death. Through literary criticism and autobiography, the book considers mediocrity the privileged site for imagining eternal absence: mediocrity as practice for being forgotten.

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Deaths Following Mediocrity Dirtiness Adulthood

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/08/2012
      ISBN13: 9780823242801, 978-0823242801
      ISBN10: 823242803
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      Death’s Following refuses the call of twentieth-century philosophy to face death heroically, advocating instead the mediocrity of Heidegger’s “they-self” and its inauthentic, distanced relation to death. Through literary criticism and autobiography, the book considers mediocrity the privileged site for imagining eternal absence: mediocrity as practice for being forgotten.

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      "My pleasure in reading Death's Following, my pleasure also in the painful truths it kept recalling, is the pleasure of reading something genuinely great. I can't remember the last time a book haunted and changed my thinking so much." -- -William Flesch Brandeis University "...unimpeachably brilliant, a marvelous addition to the discourse about contemporary literature..." -- -Jonathan Freedman University of Michigan

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