"Richard Rojcewicz argues that Heidegger and Plato see the same connection between philosophy and death: philosophizing is dying in the sense of separating oneself from the prison constituted by superficiality and hearsay. Rojcewicz relates this understanding of philosophy to signs, anxiety, conscience, music, and the COVID-19 pandemic"--.

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Being and Time as a Platonic Dialogue (On Philosophy and Death)
  • Beginning
  • The Hero
  • Middle
  • Ending
  • Conclusion: Being and Time and Plato’s Sophist
• Chapter 2: Signs and Mortality
  • Tools as Conspicuous, Obtrusive, Obstinate
  • Tools as Ostentatious
  • Signs
  • Barcodes
  • Genetic Phenomenology
  • Barcodes and the Atmosphere of Mortality
  • Acknowledgment: Poetic Motivation
• Chapter 3: Anxiety and Mortality
  • Anxiety and the “For-the-Sake-of-Which”
  • The Before-Which of Anxiety
  • Obtrusiveness
  • Obstinacy
  • Conspicuousness
  • The Before-Which of Anxiety as the Being of Dasein
  • The About-Which of Anxiety as the Being of Dasein
  • Anxiety as Being-in
  • Motives of Anxiety
  • Constant Anxiety
  • Summary of Heidegger on Death and Anxiety
  • Addendum: Poetic Expression of Anxiety
• Chapter 4: Conscience and Mortality
  • Conscience and the Being of Dasein
  • Conscience as Call
  • Conscience and Care
  • Guilt
  • Practical Wisdom
  • An Anticipating Phronesis
  • Conclusion to the First Four Chapters, on Themes from Being and Time
• Chapter 5: Music of Mortality
  • Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata
  • Gelassenheit
  • “Discussion of Gelassenheit”
  • Philosophy of Music
  • Merleau-Ponty
  • Husserl
  • Heidegger’s Kreutzer Sonata
  • Socrates
• Chapter 6: Corona-Virus-Disease-2019 and Mortality
  • Relational Sense of Life: Caring
  • Lock Down!
  • Practice Social Distancing!
  • Wash Your Hands!
  • Mask Up!
  • Poetry and Philosophy Entwined
• Conclusion: Platonic-Heideggerian Intimations of Mortality
  • Platonic Intimations of Mortality
  • Heideggerian Intimations of Mortality
  • Heidegger, Plato, Philosophy, Death
  • Final Word: Proof of Immortality?
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • chapter 6
  • Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author