On the contingency of death: A discourse-theoretical perspective on the construction of death

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.656372" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.656372</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.656372" target="_blank" >10.1080/17405904.2012.656372</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On the contingency of death: A discourse-theoretical perspective on the construction of death

Original language description

Death is frequently seen as the ultimate manifestation of materiality. Without denying this materiality, this article will investigate the discursive character of death, and its contingent nature, through the lens of Laclau and Mouffe's (1985) discoursetheory. First, the core elements of the (Western) discourse of death, such as end/cessation/termination, negativity, irreversibility, inescapability, and undesirability, in combination with life as death's constitutive outside, will be analysed, showingthe specificity of this discourse of death. The contingency of death is argued further from a more genealogical stance, through the changes over time in the articulation of death and good death. Finally, the political nature of the discourse of death isillustrated by an analysis of end-of-life debates and the struggle between the hospice and the right to die social movements over the exact articulation of a good death. The article concludes by pointing to the necessary and constitutive

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Discourse Studies

ISSN

1740-5904

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

99-115

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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