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    November Rose: A Speech on Death
    November Rose: A Speech on Death
    November Rose: A Speech on Death
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    November Rose: A Speech on Death

    By Kathrin Stengel

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    Winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award.

    In this penetrating, thought-provoking, and deeply personal philosophical meditation on the death of the beloved other and the turmoil into which it throws those who were close to him, philosopher Kathrin Stengel opens hitherto unseen vistas onto one of the most painful human experiences. The author’s ruthless clarity of observation, coupled with razor-sharp philosophical intuition and unflinching honesty of judgment, allows her to pinpoint the personal and social complexities of life after death in a way that cannot but make us doubt some of our common practices in dealing with death and survival.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUpper West Side Philosophers, Inc.
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9781935830122
    November Rose: A Speech on Death
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    Kathrin Stengel

    Kathrin Stengel, Ph.D., cofounder and president of Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., Studio & Publishing, studied philosophy at the Universities of Leuven (Belgium), Munich, and Konstanz (Germany). She has taught philosophy at Seattle University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has published widely on ethics, aesthetics and epistemology, including "Yoga for the Mind: A New Ethic for Thinking and Being & Meridians of Thought" (with Michael Eskin) and "Das Subjekt als Grenze" (The Subject as Threshold) — a comparative study on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of perception. Her book "November Rose: A Speech on Death" — a philosophical meditation on loss, grief, and survival — has won the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award. A frequent guest on radio programs throughout the US and Europe, Kathrin Stengel has designed and organized international philosophical events, including ‘What is Space? A Philosophical Inquiry into Space and the Imagination’, ‘About Style: A Philosophical Meditation on the Question of Style’, and ‘On Imagination: A Philosophical Studio’ (all three at the Rhode Island School of Design), as well as ‘Thinking and Experiencing Space’ (Germany), ‘Philosophical Walks with Nietzsche’ (Switzerland), ‘Pain and Beauty in Philosophy and the Arts’ (Seattle University), and ‘Image and Music: Improvisations on the 14 Stations’ for the Interfaith Assembly for Homelessness and Housing in New York City, video documentation of which was on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2005. For many years, Kathrin has also taught Vipassana Meditation. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three sons.

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      November Rose - Kathrin Stengel

      Philosophical thinking is Yoga for the Mind®

      Published simultaneously in English and German by

      Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.,

      P. O. Box 250645, New York, NY 10025.

      Copyright © 2007 by Kathrin Stengel

      Translated from the German by Michael Eskin

      Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. provides a publication venue for original philosophical thinking steeped in lived life, in line with our motto: philosophical living & lived philosophy.

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      Excerpt from Die Fibel. Auswahl erster Verse by Stefan George. Georg Bondi, Berlin, 1901.

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