Mirror of Death

Hermeneutical Reflections of the Realms in the Afterlife

AvKristof K. P. Vanhoutte

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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How porous is the border between life and death? How do the dead influence the living and in what way? What can Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the two Limbos tell us of our contemporary world today? In The Mirror of Death, Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte explores the hermeneutical potential of the regions in the hereafter. After an exciting voyage through the emergence of the afterlife and of the constancy of death’s presence in the history of humanity, Vanhoutte shows, through the study of the nature and genealogy of the various realms in the beyond, how an invigoratingly new and critical perspective of a wide variety of contemporary phenomena is unveiled when reading them through the interpretative lens of these regions where the dead dwell. Modern politics, our fellow human beings, the times of our lives, the capitalistic economic system, medicalization, wokism, and living in crisis will never look the same.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-11
Mått:159 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538171851

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Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte is a philosopher and research fellow at the department of philosophy of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. His previous books include Limbo Reapplied. On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent Afterlife and Purgatory. Philosophical Dimensions.

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A ghost chase of places of the afterlife, Vanhoutte’s brilliant intellectual history ensures we will never think about death the same way. This intellectual Baedeker of the afterlife demonstrates that how we live in and think about this life is always understood and referenced by how we think about and anticipate the afterlife.

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Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Philosophy and DeathPart I. Death and the Realms of the AfterlifeChapter 1. Genealogy of the Geography of the BeyondChapter 2. Death and its (non)PlacesPart II. Hermeneutical Reflections of the BeyondChapter 3. HellChapter 4. HeavenChapter 5. PurgatoryChapter 6. Limbo of the FathersChapter 7. Limbo of the ChildrenExtraductionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author