James MacAllister was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Anne Pirrie is an independent scholar and an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Ramsey Affifi teaches and researches at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

At a time when education is too often reduced to a predictable process, the idea of ‘education for death’ is placed firmly in the context of life with all its uncertainty and precariousness. There is beauty, as well as sadness, in a volume that is, at turns, surprising, poetic, humorous and always wonderfully and gloriously human and humane.

• Series Editors' ForewordIntroduction: Faith, Hope and Courage, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) and Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK), with James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)1. What Can Death Teach about Love? Downward Journeys to Nowhere Special, James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)2. Learning between Limit and Potential: Cinematic Motions in the Meaning of Life and Death, Alexis Gibbs (University of Winchester, UK)3. Lessons from the Dead: Photography and Negative Education, Ian Munday (University of Galway, Ireland)4. ‘Ending Badly from the Beginning’: Facing Finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson, Shari Sabeti (University of Edinburgh, UK)5. Ecological Literacy in Leo Tolstoy’s Master and Man and E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, Sarah MacAllister (University of Bristol, UK)6. The Return of Beauty on a Dying Planet, Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Juliette Bertoldo (Maynooth University, Ireland)7. How to Become Mortal, David Lewin (Strathclyde University, UK)8. ‘A Lot of Humour Comes Out of Desperation’: Film’s Artful Cultivation of Tragic Aesthetic Vision, Katja Frimberger (Strathclyde University, UK)9. The Difficulty of Mortality and the (Im)Possibility of Education, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) and Elizabeth O’Brien (Maynooth University, Ireland)10. The Focus on the Full-Time Whistle: Football, Death and Care in Life, Ian Normile, Gale MacLeod, and James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)Conclusion: Listening into the Silence, Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK), with James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)Epilogue, Harriet Harris (University of Edinburgh, UK)Index

James MacAllister was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Anne Pirrie is an independent scholar and an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Ramsey Affifi teaches and researches at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

At a time when education is too often reduced to a predictable process, the idea of ‘education for death’ is placed firmly in the context of life with all its uncertainty and precariousness. There is beauty, as well as sadness, in a volume that is, at turns, surprising, poetic, humorous and always wonderfully and gloriously human and humane.

• Series Editors' ForewordIntroduction: Faith, Hope and Courage, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) and Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK), with James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)1. What Can Death Teach about Love? Downward Journeys to Nowhere Special, James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)2. Learning between Limit and Potential: Cinematic Motions in the Meaning of Life and Death, Alexis Gibbs (University of Winchester, UK)3. Lessons from the Dead: Photography and Negative Education, Ian Munday (University of Galway, Ireland)4. ‘Ending Badly from the Beginning’: Facing Finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson, Shari Sabeti (University of Edinburgh, UK)5. Ecological Literacy in Leo Tolstoy’s Master and Man and E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, Sarah MacAllister (University of Bristol, UK)6. The Return of Beauty on a Dying Planet, Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Juliette Bertoldo (Maynooth University, Ireland)7. How to Become Mortal, David Lewin (Strathclyde University, UK)8. ‘A Lot of Humour Comes Out of Desperation’: Film’s Artful Cultivation of Tragic Aesthetic Vision, Katja Frimberger (Strathclyde University, UK)9. The Difficulty of Mortality and the (Im)Possibility of Education, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) and Elizabeth O’Brien (Maynooth University, Ireland)10. The Focus on the Full-Time Whistle: Football, Death and Care in Life, Ian Normile, Gale MacLeod, and James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)Conclusion: Listening into the Silence, Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK), with James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)Epilogue, Harriet Harris (University of Edinburgh, UK)Index

James MacAllister was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Anne Pirrie is an independent scholar and an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Ramsey Affifi teaches and researches at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

At a time when education is too often reduced to a predictable process, the idea of ‘education for death’ is placed firmly in the context of life with all its uncertainty and precariousness. There is beauty, as well as sadness, in a volume that is, at turns, surprising, poetic, humorous and always wonderfully and gloriously human and humane.

• Series Editors' ForewordIntroduction: Faith, Hope and Courage, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) and Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK), with James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)1. What Can Death Teach about Love? Downward Journeys to Nowhere Special, James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)2. Learning between Limit and Potential: Cinematic Motions in the Meaning of Life and Death, Alexis Gibbs (University of Winchester, UK)3. Lessons from the Dead: Photography and Negative Education, Ian Munday (University of Galway, Ireland)4. ‘Ending Badly from the Beginning’: Facing Finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson, Shari Sabeti (University of Edinburgh, UK)5. Ecological Literacy in Leo Tolstoy’s Master and Man and E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, Sarah MacAllister (University of Bristol, UK)6. The Return of Beauty on a Dying Planet, Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Juliette Bertoldo (Maynooth University, Ireland)7. How to Become Mortal, David Lewin (Strathclyde University, UK)8. ‘A Lot of Humour Comes Out of Desperation’: Film’s Artful Cultivation of Tragic Aesthetic Vision, Katja Frimberger (Strathclyde University, UK)9. The Difficulty of Mortality and the (Im)Possibility of Education, Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK) and Elizabeth O’Brien (Maynooth University, Ireland)10. The Focus on the Full-Time Whistle: Football, Death and Care in Life, Ian Normile, Gale MacLeod, and James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)Conclusion: Listening into the Silence, Ramsey Affifi (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland, UK), with James MacAllister (University of Edinburgh, UK)Epilogue, Harriet Harris (University of Edinburgh, UK)Index