{ "item_title" : "The Event of Death", "item_author" : [" I. Leman-Stefanovic "], "item_description" : "Building upon the preliminary conception of Phenomenology introduced by Heidegger in section II of the Introduction to Sein und zeit, l one may say that a phenomenology of death would mean: to let death, as that which shows itself, be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. Does this mean then, that a properly phenomenological d- cription of death may reveal to us what death as a factical event is like in the very way in which it shows itself from itself? Although I cannot experience my death in order to describe it, may some kind of phenomenologica'l inference or extrapolation2 be the condition for a unique and privileged revelation of what it is like to be dead? There is an important element of phenomenological descr- tion which renders such an extrapolation implausible, and it involves what Husserl originally called the reduction to signi- cance or meaning. It can never be true for the phenomenologist, 1 Heidegger, Martin, Sein und zeit, p. 34. e. t. page 58. 2 Henry W. Johnstone Jr. thinks that while one cannot extrapo- late from the experience of sleep to the experience of death, it may be possible to extrapolate from the phenomeno- lQgy of sleep to the phenomenology of death. Cf. H. W. John- stone Jr., Toward a Phenomenology of Death, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, 1975, pages 396-7. Cf.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/40/108/068/9401080682_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "169.99", "online_price" : "169.99", "our_price" : "169.99", "club_price" : "169.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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