Natality and Finitude

Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance, birth and action, embodiment, biological determinism, and cloning anchor this sensitive and powerful analysis. O'Byrne's thinking advances and deepens important discussions at the intersections of feminism, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social and political thought.

Author: Anne O'Byrne
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/22/2010
Series: Studies in Continental Thought
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780253222411