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THE
EXPERIENCE OF DEATH
and
The Moral Problem of Suicide
by Paul Louis LANDSBERG
MORE INFO :
One of the great works of Twentieth
Century Philosophy, its investigation and analysis of the "Experience
of Death" is as important as that of Martin Heidegger in
his 'Being and Time', though for many years unavailable
and therefore underestimated,
BIOGRAPHY:
Paul-Louis Landsberg was born
in Bonn in 1901. Having completed his studies he went on to become
Professor of Philosophy at the University of this City, however,
due to his opposition to Nazism he fled Germany one day before
the coming to power of Hitler in 1933. Between 1934 and 1936
he held lecturing positions in Madrid and Barcelona, where his
thought exerted a great influence over his pupils and where it
is still studied avidly to this day. However, with the coming
of the Civil War in Spain Landsberg transferred to Paris where
he gave courses at the Sorbonne on the meaning of existence,
at which time he also became closely involved with the journal
'Esprit', where his thought was very influential. At this time
he also became friends with the 'Personalist' philosopher Emmanuel
Mounier, whose themes were similar to those studied in his own
works. A friend of Max Scheler's, and a disciple of some of his
phenomenological methods, Landsberg was like him a Christian.
He was hounded by the Gestapo for a long period of time and In
1943 Landsberg was deported from Paris for being of Jewish origin.
He was transported to the Work Camp at Oranienburg, Berlin. He
died of exhaustion in 1944.
FEATURES :
The Complete Texts of
both these key works of Landsberg. Textual Annotations
and a Select Bibliography of his works. Not only the "Experience
of Death", but his equally important Essay "On
the Moral Problem of Suicide" features here too.
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