Marc Crpon pursues a path toward a cosmopolitics
of mourning through readings of works by Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and
Ricoeur, and others. The movement among these writers marks a way throughand againsttwentieth-century interpretation to argue
that no war, genocide, or neglect of people is possible without suspending how one
relates to the death of another human being.
