Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale, and Bruce Peabody
1. Memory and Mortality in Homer’s Odyssey
Rachel K. Alexander
2. Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee
3. "Every Form of Death": Thucydides on Death’s Political Presence
Daniel Schillinger
4. Mortality, Recollection, and Human Dignity in Plato
Ann Ward
5. Good Old Age: Aristotle and the "Virtues" of Aging
Marlene K. Sokolon
6. The Buddha, Death, and Taxes
Matthew J. Moore
7. Flourishing toward Dissolution: Epicurus on the Resilience of Tranquility
Alex R Gillham
8. The Political Philosophy of Death in Laozi
Peng Yu
9. The Bhagavad Gītā and Paradox of Death
Stuart Gray
10. Life and Death as a Political Act: Cicero and the Stoics
Carly T. Herold
11. Prenatal and Posthumous Nonexistence: Lucretius on the Harmlessness of Death
Taylor W. Cyr
12. The Road to Freedom: Seneca on Fear, Reason, and Death
J. Michael Hoffpauir
13. Continuity Without Corruption: The Political Theology of Death in St. Augustine
James R. Stoner, Jr.
14. Jihād for the City: How Alfarabi Discourages, and Encourages, Death in Battle
Alexander Orwin
15. Techniques for the Social Self: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Remembrance of Death
Sean Hanretta
16. Death and Dying, Mortality and Immortality in Moses Maimonides
Joshua Parens
17. The Young, the Old, and the Immortal: Machiavelli on Political Health and Aging
Faisal Baluch
18. Death in Montaigne’s Essays
Brandon Turner
19. When "Every Third Thought Shall Be My Grave": Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest
Mary P. Nichols
20. Francis Bacon on "the Dolours of Death"
Erin A. Dolgoy
21. Descartes On How We Should Relate to Death
Frans Svensson
22. "The Wages of Sin": Morality and Mortality in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Kimberly Hurd Hale
23. A Liberation From Fear: Benedict de Spinoza on Religion, Philosophy, and Mortality
Aaron L. Herold
24. Thomas Hobbes on the Uses and Disadvantages of Death for Political Life
Bradley R. Jackson
25. The Role of Death and Eternity in Locke’s Political Philosophy
Jack Clinton Byham
26. Montesquieu on Death, Liberty, and Law
Trevor Shelley
27. Can Philosophy Console Us?: Hume’s Understanding of Mortality
Stephen Wirls
28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Fear of Death and the Happiness of Life
Daniel Cullen
29. Adam Smith and Dying Peacefully
Maria Pia Paganelli
30. Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke
Lauren K. Hall
31. Kant on Death and the Purpose of Human Life
Jeffrey Church
32. Overcoming the Mortal Diseases and Short Lives of Republican Governments: Publius and Political Immortality
Bruce Peabody
33. Hegel on Death and the Spirit
Cecil L. Eubanks
34. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love
Jamie Aroosi
35. Immortality and Angst in Tocqueville’s America
Benjamin T. Lynerd
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
Helen McCabe
37. Death and Dynamism in Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy
Laura K. Field
38. Facing Death Fearlessly, So Others Can Live Without Fear: Gandhi’s Philosophy as Art of Dying
Veena R. Howard
39. "An Earthly Immortality": Arendt on Mortality, Politics, and Political Death
Michael Christopher Sardo
40. Death in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time
Mark Menaldo
41. Make Live and Let Die: Michel Foucault, Biopower, and the Art of Dying Well
Tom Roach
42. Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Death and Aging
Kiki Berk
43. Metamorphoses: Gilles Deleuze on Living and Death
Chas. Phillips
44. Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and Mourning
Marguerite La Caze
45. Alasdair MacIntyre and the Twilight of the Virtues
John W. Schiemann
