Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. German language text. 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.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Kathrin Stengel, Ph. D., studied philosophy at the Universities of Leuven (Belgium), Munich, and Konstanz (Germany). She has taught philosophy at Seattle University and published essays on ethics, aesthetics, and epistemology, as well as a comparative study on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of perception, entitled Das Subjekt als Grenze (The Subject as Threshold), and November Rose: A Speech on Death (winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award). For many years, Kathrin has also taught Vipassana Meditation. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three sons. Dr. Kathrin Stengel resides in New York City and is the co-founder of the Independent Center for Philosophical Thinking.