Flesh of the Deceased An Examination of Phenomenologies of the Death of the Other

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Flakne, April

Keywords

Death, Phenomenology, Self, Other

Area of Concentration

Philosophy

Abstract

In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger asserts that the death of the other is entirely unrelated to my own death because the death of the other is always an actuality whereas my death is always a possibility, indeed the supreme possibility, the possibility of impossibility. Yet, I contend that I can be thrown upon my death as such a possibility through three conceptions of the death of the other: the death of the other as an actuality, the death of the other as a possibility for him, and the death of the other as a possibility for me. In addition, I argue that the death of the other as an actuality can lead me to consider the death of living others as possibilities. Because the self is based upon the possibility of impossibility, and this possibility is dependent upon the other, I suggest that there must be a reformulation of the self within a Heideggerian framework.

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