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The Meaning of Mourning
Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief
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2023
Summary
Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the topics of death, grief, and mourning. The collection moves from general questions concerning the putative badness of death and the meaning of loss through the phenomenology and psychology of grief, to personal and cultural aspects of mourning. Contributors examine topics such as theodicy and grief, reproductive loss, mourning as a form of recognition of value, the roots of grief in early childhood, grief in COVID-times, hope, phenomenology of loss, public commemoration and mourning rituals, mourning for a devastated culture, the Necropolis of Glasgow, and the “art of outliving.” Edited by Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode, the volume provides a survey of the rich topography of methodologies, problems, approaches, and disciplines that are involved in the study of issues surrounding loss and our responses to it and guides the reader through a spectrum of perspectives, highlighting the connections and discontinuities between them.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0892-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0893-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
256
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1 Hume and DoctorJohnson on Death No access Pages 7 - 18
2 The Problem of Mourning No access Pages 19 - 32
3 What Can the Roman Catholic Liturgies of the Dead Offer Mourners Solidarity with the Deceased and Hopeful Protest? No access Pages 33 - 56
4 Toward a Philosophical Theology of Pregnancy Loss No access Pages 57 - 76
5 Mourning A Phenomenology No access Pages 77 - 92
6 Mourning and the Recognition of Value No access Pages 93 - 106
7 Grieving and Mourning The Psychology of Bereavement No access Pages 107 - 118
8 Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning No access Pages 119 - 130
9 Mourning and the Second-Person Perspective No access Pages 131 - 148
10 Mourning Academic Mentors and Mentees No access Pages 149 - 170
11 Mourning and Memory, Private and Public Dimensions No access Pages 171 - 182
12 The Work of Mourning No access Pages 183 - 192
13 Sidgwick’s Dilemma No access Pages 193 - 202
14 “Israel but the Grave…” The Art and Architecture of Mourning No access Pages 203 - 220
15 The Difficult Art of Outliving No access Pages 221 - 238
