Lecture by Andrea Esser (Codirector, Research Project \u201cDeath and Dead Bodies\u201d)<\/p>\n
The motto on Duchamps\u2019 gravestone \u201cD\u2019ailleurs, c\u2019est toujours les autres, qui meurent\u201d is an ironic reminder. We certainly know that all people are mortal, but we still tend to forget that this also applies to us. We not only have the capacity to grasp our own death as knowing beings, but we are also as called to do so as social, emotional, and physical beings, as people. Whereas death can correctly be defined as \u201cthe irreversible end of an organism,\u201d as people we are not only members of a species but also the source and focal reference of an individually lived, physically expressed, and unique life. This individual life is terminated by death and leaves behind not a corpse but a dead body. These personal aspects of death and the corpse cannot be understood in general terms but only by means of aesthetic and artistic representations. <\/p>\n
Andrea Esser has been Professor for Practical Philosophy at the Philipps University in Marburg since 2006; she is also editor of the Academy edition of Kant\u2019s \u201cKritik der Urteilskraft\u201d, coeditor of the \u201cDeutsche Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Philosophie (DZPhil)\u201d, and managing director of the Deutschen Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Philosophie (DGPhil). She studied psychology and political science at the LMU Munich, where she received her doctorate in 1994. In 2002 she completed her habilitation thesis in philosophy also at the LMU. Esser heads the subproject I \u201cPhilosophy in the Function of a Critical-Reconstructive and Critical-Normal Reflection\u201d in the interdisciplinary research project \u201cDeath and Dead Bodies. Transmortality\u201d (Aachen, Berlin, Marburg, and Zurich).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lecture by Andrea Esser (Codirector, Research Project \u201cDeath and Dead Bodies\u201d) The motto on Duchamps\u2019 gravestone \u201cD\u2019ailleurs, c\u2019est toujours les autres, qui meurent\u201d is an ironic reminder. We certainly know that all people are mortal, but we still tend to forget that this also applies to us. We not only have the capacity to grasp …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8634,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21526","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/21526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/21526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}