Books by Francoise Dastur

Plato's "Phaedo", Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" and Heidegger's "Being and Time" are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the ideas that to practice philosophy is to practice how to die. This study traces how these variations are connected with each other.

This study explores Heidegger's idea of a "phenomenological chronology", of the temporality of phenomena. It combines close readings of passages from some of his major works with discussions of the works of other philosophers.

This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion's attempt to make sense of death, science's attempt to evade death, and philosophy's attempt to embrace death as a fundamental and defining moment of what it means to be human.

Shows one thinker's debts to and departures from another and reveals the limits of one's approach while highlighting the innovation of another's