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Matters surrounding beginning and demise were primary for Western philosophy in addition to for person life. The individuals to this quantity resolve the gendered points of the classical philosophical discourses on loss of life, bringing in discussions approximately start, creativity, and the complete chain of human job. through linking their paintings to significant thinkers similar to Heidegger, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, and Arendt, and to significant philosophical currents comparable to historic philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy, they problem winning feminist articulations of beginning and loss of life. those philosophical reflections upload an immense sexual measurement to present considering on identification, temporality, and neighborhood.
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