- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Part I Outside
- Outside
- The Weight of Reality
- Doubles
- Shadows
- Part II Chance
- Cause, Choice, Chance
- Part III Passions
- The Altiplano
- Return of the First Person Singular
- Aconcagua
- Seduction
- Truthfulness
- Part IV Belief
- The Stone Axe
- Angels with Guns
- Belief
- Performance
- Voyage
- Part V Justice
- The Future of Torture
- Justice
- The System
- Truth in Reconciliation
- Part VI Irrevocable
- The Babies in Trees
- Mortality
- Dignity
- Irrevocable Loss
- Part VII Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Appendix Philosophy’s Tasks
- Notes
- About the Photographs
- Acknowledgments
Mortality
Mortality
- Chapter:
- (p.161) Mortality
- Source:
- Irrevocable
- Author(s):
Alphonso Lingis
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Martin Heidegger explains that anxiety, the premonition of nothingness, is an anticipation of dying. He brings together the future, the possible, goals, death, and nothingness. He traces how the sense of the negative, pushed all the way, converts into the most positive, positing experience. It posits my existence in all its singularity. But does anxiety really identify death to be nothingness? Is our dying a sinking into passivity, a dying into nature? What in an earlier, evolutionist anthropology was dubbed “animism” recognizes that voices addressing us and ordering us may be the voices of other species and voices of the absent and the dead.
Keywords: Heidegger, anxiety, nothingness, dying into nature, animism
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Part I Outside
- Outside
- The Weight of Reality
- Doubles
- Shadows
- Part II Chance
- Cause, Choice, Chance
- Part III Passions
- The Altiplano
- Return of the First Person Singular
- Aconcagua
- Seduction
- Truthfulness
- Part IV Belief
- The Stone Axe
- Angels with Guns
- Belief
- Performance
- Voyage
- Part V Justice
- The Future of Torture
- Justice
- The System
- Truth in Reconciliation
- Part VI Irrevocable
- The Babies in Trees
- Mortality
- Dignity
- Irrevocable Loss
- Part VII Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Appendix Philosophy’s Tasks
- Notes
- About the Photographs
- Acknowledgments