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Published in: Society 4/2023

09-06-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022, 162 pp., ISBN: 9780674272590

Author: Julian Young

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2023

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Jonathan Lear’s pleasantly written book is mostly a reworking of previously published material. As a result, the issues it covers sometimes “hang together” (Preface) only rather loosely. The subtitle Mourning and Ethical Life, however, identifies the center of Lear’s concern. I shall try to articulate this, and mostly ignore more peripheral matters. …
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Footnotes
1
1916 is a significant date. It was the year in which, as it began to dawn on the Germanic world that it might lose the war, the excuse of a Jewish “stab in the back” reared its ugly head.
 
2
That she did, in fact, obtain a BA from Northwestern’s “School of Communication” is not, I suspect, inconsistent with this claim.
 
3
Martin Heidegger: Gesamtausgabe (Franfurt a. M: Klostermann, 1977-) vol. 52 p. 64, vol. 9 p. 310, vol. 8 pp. 149–152.
 
4
Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1967), p. 385.
 
5
The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings trans. R. Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 108.
 
Metadata
Title
Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022, 162 pp., ISBN: 9780674272590
Author
Julian Young
Publication date
09-06-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 4/2023
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00864-7

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