This comprehensive, encyclopedic review compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying, discussing fourty five canonical thinker’s ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death
Political Theory on Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying.
Adopting an easy-to-follow chronological and multi-disciplinary approach on 45 canonical figures and thinkers, leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including political science, philosophy, and English, discuss each thinker’s ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death. Each chapter focuses on a single established figure in political philosophy, as well as religious and literary thinkers, covering classical to contemporary thought on death. Through this approach, the chapters are designed to stand alone, allowing the reader to study every entry in isolation and with greater depth, as well as trace how thinkers are influenced by their predecessors.
A key contribution to the field, Political Theory on Death and Dying provides an excellent overview for students and researchers who study philosophy of death, the history of political thought, and political philosophy.
Introduction
1. Memory and Mortality in Homers Odyssey
2. Confucian
Authority and the Politics of Caring
3. "Every Form of Death": Thucydides on
Deaths Political Presence
4. Mortality, Recollection, and Human Dignity in
Plato
5. Good Old Age: Aristotle and the "Virtues" of Aging
6. The Buddha,
Death, and Taxes
7. Flourishing toward Dissolution: Epicurus on the
Resilience of Tranquility
8. The Political Philosophy of Death in Laozi
9.
The Bhagavad Gt and Paradox of Death
10. Life and Death as a Political Act:
Cicero and the Stoics
11. Prenatal and Posthumous Nonexistence: Lucretius on
the Harmlessness of Death
12. The Road to Freedom: Seneca on Fear, Reason,
and Death
13. Continuity Without Corruption: The Political Theology of Death
in St. Augustine
14. Jihd for the City: How Alfarabi Discourages, and
Encourages, Death in Battle
15. Techniques for the Social Self: Ab mid
al-Ghazl and the Remembrance of Death
16. Death and Dying, Mortality and
Immortality in Moses Maimonides
17. The Young, the Old, and the Immortal:
Machiavelli on Political Health and Aging
18. Death in Montaignes Essays
19.
When "Every Third Thought Shall Be My Grave": Shakespeares King Lear and The
Tempest
20. Francis Bacon on "the Dolours of Death"
21. Descartes On How We
Should Relate to Death
22. "The Wages of Sin": Morality and Mortality in John
Miltons Paradise Lost
23. A Liberation From Fear: Benedict de Spinoza on
Religion, Philosophy, and Mortality
24. Thomas Hobbes on the Uses and
Disadvantages of Death for Political Life
25. The Role of Death and Eternity
in Lockes Political Philosophy
26. Montesquieu on Death, Liberty, and Law
27. Can Philosophy Console Us?: Humes Understanding of Mortality
28.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Fear of Death and the Happiness of Life
29. Adam
Smith and Dying Peacefully
30. Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death
and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke
31. Kant on Death and the
Purpose of Human Life
32. Overcoming the Mortal Diseases and Short Lives of
Republican Governments: Publius and Political Immortality
33. Hegel on Death
and the Spirit
34. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren
Kierkegaards Philosophy of Love
35. Immortality and Angst in Tocquevilles
America
36. "What is Odious in Death Is not Death Itself, but the Act of
Dying": John Stuart Mill on the Political Philosophy of Death and Dying
37.
Death and Dynamism in Nietzsches Political Philosophy
38. Facing Death
Fearlessly, So Others Can Live Without Fear: Gandhis Philosophy as Art of
Dying
39. "An Earthly Immortality": Arendt on Mortality, Politics, and
Political Death
40. Death in Martin Heideggers Being and Time
41. Make Live
and Let Die: Michel Foucault, Biopower, and the Art of Dying Well
42.
Beauvoirs Philosophy of Death and Aging
43. Metamorphoses: Gilles Deleuze on
Living and Death
44. Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and
Mourning
45. Alasdair MacIntyre and the Twilight of the Virtues
Erin A. Dolgoy is assistant professor of philosophy and assistant professor of politics & law at Rhodes College. Her work has been published in Perspectives on Political Science, Utopian Studies (with Kimberly Hurd Hale), and Political Science Reviewer (with Kimberly Hurd Hale). She is co-editor (with Kimberly Hurd Hale and Bruce Peabody) of Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion (2019).
Kimberly Hurd Hale is associate professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University. She is author of Francis Bacons New Atlantis in the Foundation of Modern Political Thought (2013), The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film (2016), and co-editor (with Erin A. Dolgoy and Bruce Peabody) of Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion (2019).
Bruce Peabody is professor of government and politics at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the co-editor (with Gloria Pastorino) of Beyond the Living Dead: Essays on the Romero Legacy (2021), co-editor (with Kimberly Hurd Hale and Erin A. Dolgoy) of Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion (2019), and co-author (with Krista Jenkins) of Where Have all the Heroes Gone: The Changing Nature of American Valor (2017).
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