Trouble with death: Making sense of mortality in the Anthropocene

Bowring, Finn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7475-5076 2025. Trouble with death: Making sense of mortality in the Anthropocene. Death and Culture, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press.

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Abstract

Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it? What insights can we gain from the ways death has been imagined, theorized, and organized throughout Western social and intellectual history that might help us respond meaningfully to the climate emergency? This interdisciplinary study begins with the role of tragedy in Greek antiquity and examines European attitudes toward death, especially their entanglement with colonial atrocities and politically organized killings. Drawing on the work of philosophers, sociologists, historians, and psychoanalysts, this is a resounding call to confront our responsibility for the lives of others—and the future of life itself—amid the existential threats of the Anthropocene.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
ISBN:	978-1529241235
Last Modified:	08 May 2025 13:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178015

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