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Veröffentlichung:	Februar 2023
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9780231208369
EAN-Code:	9780231208369
Verlag:	University Presses
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D
Seiten:	304
Illustration:	26 b&w illustrations
Zus. Info:	Print PDF
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Inhalt:

Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marovich argues that such understandings of mortality have been deeply influenced by a strain of Christian political theology that has left its mark on both religious and secular narratives. Adapting the figure of "Sister Death" from Saint Francis of Assisi, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family. Drawing on a wide range of sources-from Toni Morrison to Jacques Derrida, psychoanalysis to grassroots "death positive" movements-Marovich critiques a racialized political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. In a time of extinctions, it is necessary to disrupt this dominant story in order to apprehend death as a collective, multispecies event. Sister Death proposes an alternative view in which life and death are not mortal enemies destined for mutual destruction. Instead, they are engaged in a contested, tense, and sometimes mutually empowering form of connection-a sisterhood. Eloquent and approachable, this book deftly integrates the insights of a number of disciplines to provide a profound reconsideration of the relations between life and death. Sister Death also features a series of original works by the artist Krista Dragomer that stage an ongoing conceptual conversation with the text.