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Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grief than as an action to be performed, well or badly.Active deaths belie narratives of helplessness and loss through which mortality is too often read and instead suggest how marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some early modern strategies for dying resonate with descriptions of politicized biological life in the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, or with ecclesiastical forms. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death.

Theater --- Death in literature. --- English drama --- History --- History and criticism. --- Ars moriendi. --- Ben Jonson. --- Christopher Marlowe. --- Death. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Renaissance Drama. --- Robert Esposito. --- William Shakespeare. --- biopolitics.

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Der Tod ist die einzige Gewissheit des Lebens. Das Bewusstsein von der eigenen Sterblichkeit ist eine Grundbedingung des Menschseins und hat über Jahrhunderte Religionen und Philosophen zu Deutungsversuchen herausgefordert. Die Möglichkeit der menschengemachten Auslöschung des Erdenlebens vor Augen, widmet sich der vorliegende Band verschiedenen Formen, mit der eigenen Zeitlichkeit umzugehen: vom Pomp der Leichenzüge im antiken Rom und der ars moriendi des Mittelalters zu Pariser Revolutionsfriedhöfen, der Erinnerung an Hiroshima und an die Unerträglichkeit des Holocaust, vom Heldentod im Krieg über Filmtote und Sterbepraktiken im Kulturvergleich zum unendlichen Ende im Computerspiel und der Hoffnung auf Unsterblichkeit im Cyberspace. Der vorliegende Band lädt zu einer interdisziplinären Tour d'Horizon zum vielgestaltigen Umgang mit dem Tod ein und stellt Forschungsergebnisse aus den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, aus Theologie, Philosophie und Geschichte sowie aus der Kunst-, Musik- und Medienwissenschaft in einem weiten Spektrum von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vor

(Produktform)Hardback --- Tod im Videospiel --- Hiroshima und Nagasaki --- Tod und Krieg --- Sterben in der Literatur --- Hinrichtungen in der Französischen Revolution --- ars moriendi --- (Artikeltyp)3000 --- (Produktgruppe)210 --- (VLB-WN)1559: Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Social aspects.

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Der unter Platons Namen überlieferte Dialog 'Axiochos' beschäftigt sich mit der zeitlosen Frage, ob man vor dem Tod Angst haben muss. Sokrates versucht, seinen sterbenskranken Gesprächspartner Axiochos durch verschiedene philosophische Argumente von seiner Todesfurcht zu befreien. Doch allein die platonische Grundüberzeugung von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele kann Axiochos schließlich überzeugen.

Death --- Death. --- Plato --- Plato. --- Tod. --- Philosophie. --- Platonismus. --- Axiochus. --- Education / Higher --- History / Ancient --- Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy --- Education --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Platon --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Платон --- プラトン --- Axiochos --- Peri thanatou --- Περὶ θανάτου --- Αξίοχος --- Hellenismus --- (Pseudo)-Platon --- Mittelplatonismus --- ars moriendi --- Editionen, Textausgaben --- Lehrbücher --- Studienliteratur --- Antike --- Alte Geschichte --- Anthropologie --- Ethik --- Antike Philosophie

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Birth and death are both profound life transitions, revealing deeply existential, social, and spiritual questions in addition to various forms of ritual and ritualizing. While birth and death are often seen as opposites, this edited volume shows that the start and end of life share many ambiguities. They represent a beginning and an end, and lead to ritualizing as well as embodied forms of spirituality. Throughout the book, the authors discuss theoretical and empirical perspectives on rituals at birth and death from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as religious studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. By doing so, they shed light on new forms of ritualizing, as well as on traditional rituals.

Religion & beliefs --- priest --- Ars moriendi --- sharing death --- death teacher --- African birth ritual --- ancestor worship --- art --- birth --- birth altar --- birthing justice --- ceremony --- child --- childbirth --- Chinese birth ritual --- contemporary art --- humanism --- indigenous birth ritual --- material culture --- mother --- nonreligion --- nonreligious --- pregnancy --- religion --- re-sacralization --- rite of passage --- ritual --- sacred --- secular --- secularity --- spirituality --- symbol --- traditional birth --- grief --- bereavement --- death --- pregnancy loss --- embodiment --- metaphor --- rituals --- cultural practices --- Africa --- memory making --- function of ritualized acts --- ritualization --- neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) --- new-born --- bereaved parents --- nurses --- parent support group --- existential --- infrastructural breaks --- sociology of repair --- life-cycle rituals --- funeral market --- maternity care --- tattoo --- body-modification --- identity --- self-construction --- Dimasa --- death rituals --- urban --- ritual performance --- personhood --- motherhood --- miscarriage --- stillbirth --- abortion --- ritualizing --- qualitative research --- The Netherlands --- n/a

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