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The Understandings of Death in Heidegger and Tolstoy -On Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Illich-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2019, (29), pp.48~69
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2019..29.003
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 23, 2018
  • Accepted : January 30, 2019
  • Published : January 31, 2019

Donguhn Suh 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

There are two discourses on death in Tolstoy’s novel, The Death of Ivan Illich, and they have some parallels in Heidegger’s Being and Time, regardless of the contexts in which Heidegger quotes the novel. Heidegger introduces Tolstoy’s novel in his footnote of Being and Time, illustrating the ordinary people’s understanding of death. Through the medium of the heuristic moment of the protagonist in the context of the novel, one can say that Tolstoy was thinking of two kinds of death, like Heidegger. Following Kimura Bin’s(木村 敏) three kinds of death, that is, the death from the perspectives of the first person, of the second person and of the third person, this paper applies it to Tolstoy’s and Heidegger’s understanding of death, and analyses Ivan Illich’s understanding process of death as a transition from the third person’s perspective to the first person’s or a transition from death in unauthentic existence to that in authentic existence.

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