An Ontological Study of Death: From Hegel to Heidegger

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absolute negation, 45, 51. See also negativity, dialectical abstract negation. See absolute negation accumulation, capitalistic, 8–9 aesthetics, 35, 85–88, 121, 134–49, 233–35 alêtheia, 257–58 all-unity, 202–10. See also unification aloneness, 9, 12–15. See also individuality, death and anatomy, pathological. See pathology, anatomical Anaximander, 137–38, 298 n. 19 angels, 220–21 Angst (Heidegger), 256–57. See also fear animality, death and, 6–7, 38–39, 67–69 annulment. See aufheben anthropology, existentialist, 64–78 anticipation, 261, 306 n. 35. See also Vorlaufen Antigone, 54–56 anxiety, Heideggerean, 256–57. See also fear aorgic, the, 121 Apollinian drama, 134–35. See also individuation, Apollinian Ariès, Philippe, 9–15, 19 Aristotle, 144–45 arrangements, textual, 99–100 ars moriendi, 10–11, 23 ars vitae, 11–12 art, 85–86, 121, 134–49, 233–35. See also beauty attunement, 271 aufheben, 45–46. See also movement, dialectical; negativity, dialectical Aussein, 259 authenticity (Heidegger), 254 authoritarianism, 33–34, 36 autonomy, dialectical. See freedom Baudrillard, Jean, 8–9 beauty, 35, 86–88. See also art; God; love; nature; spirit becoming (Hegel), 37 being. See ontological model Being and Time (Heidegger), 244–70 being-in-itself. See nature being-toward-the-end, 247–48 Bernese manuscripts (Hegel), 30–34 Bichat, Xavier, 16–17 Bildung, 84–86 birth, 183–84 Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (Nietzsche), 134–36 body, the, 3–5. See also pathology, anatomical Book of Hours (Rilke), 180–84 bureaucratization. See death, medicalized Buren, John van, 241 burial, 12, 192–93, 300 n. 9 cancellation. See aufheben capability, dialectical, 76–77. See also suicide capitalism, 8–9 care, 273–74 Cartesian spatiality, 206 catharsis, 144–45 cemeteries, 10, 11. See also burial certainty (Heidegger), 257–58, 266–67 childhood, 84–85 Christ. See Jesus 321 Index 322 Index Christianity: Hegel on, 31–34, 39–44, 58–62, 64, 75–76; Heidegger on, 243; Hölderlin on, 117–18. See also religion circularity, 41, 90–91 cities. See death, modern civilization, 140–43 completeness, 244–48 conscience (Heidegger), 271–73, 274–75 consciousness: dialectical, 21, 44–46; existentialist understanding of, 67–69, 71–72; expressivist, 53–54; pyramid of, 206–07; as self-knowledge, 60, 62–64; unification and, 81–82, 84–86, 91 contemplation, 259–60 corpse, the. See pathology, anatomical Crucifixion, the, 58–62, 64, 117–18. See also Jesus; religion cultivation, dialectical, 49–50 culture, 140–43 Daimones, 103–05 Dasein, 240, 250, 271, 305 n. 25; and attunement, 271; as care, 273–74; and discourse, 271; and dying, 249–50; thrownness of, 265–66, 273; and understanding, 271. See also Heidegger, Martin das Offene. See Offene, das das Reich Gottes. See Reich Gottes, das death: ambiguous, 192–95; apparent, 12, 192–93, 300 n. 9; authentic, 185; beautiful, 12; as biological process, 6–7, 38–39, 67–69; as boundary, 1–2, 6, 250–51; medicalized, 13–18, 23–24, 181–89, 192–95, 227–28, 282–88; and capitalism, 8–9; and contemplation, 259–60; as equalizer, 10–11; and expectation, 260–61; and isolation, 9, 12–15; modern, 181–84, 185–89, 192–95, 283–84; and nonsurpassability, 252–53, 255–56, 267–68; as possibility, 253–54, 255–56, 259–61, 266–69; at the “right time,” 157–62, 269–70; systems, 3; totalized, 185, 195–97, 207–28; voluntary, 157–77. See also “dirty death”; individuality, death and; gardening Death; suicide Death of Empedocles (Hölderlin), 98–127, 146–49, 277–80 Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy), 5–6, 187, 192 “death of the other,” 12 “death of the self,” 10–11 “Death” (Rilke), 210–13 debt, ontological, 137–38. See also guilt; sin decay, organic, 38–39. See also inevitability, biological demarcation, death as, 1–2, 6, 250–51 determinate negation, 45, 51. See also negativity, dialectical dialectical model, 19–21, 36–37, 44–48, 81–82. See also Hegel, Georg; Hölderlin, Friedrich; unification Diogenes Laertius. See pre-Socratic philosophy Dionysian drama, 134–36. See also integration, Dionysian “dirty death,” 12–13, 191–92 disclosure, existential, 257–58, 275 discourse, 271 Discovering the Mind (Kaufmann), 242–43 disease, 15–18, 186–87. See also death, medicalized; pathology, anatomical dualism, 3–5, 30–44, 62 Duino Elegies (Rilke), 213–28 dying: art of, 10–11, 23; Dasein and, 249–50; stages of, 285 Early Theological Writings (Hegel). See Bernese manuscripts (Hegel); Frankfurt manuscripts (Hegel) eigener Tod, 182–84...