Doves and Dasein

By Jeremy Forsythe

Doves and Dasein is a philosophical anthology of aphorisms and poems written by Jeremy Forsythe. It touches on the absurdity of being human, on one's inner struggle between life and death, and on the role that beauty and mortality play in luring people toward a devotion to either Being or Nothingness. Within these aphoristic pages, one will also discover a brief history of the Saol - a strange cult cut off from the Western world. The Saol people are devoted to the phenomenon of beauty, have a firm belief in nine bizarre and philosophical epiphanies, and regard the transcendence of suffering as the fundamental goal of the individual and collective human spirit. "The history of the Saol began under precarious circumstances, circumstances that trail back many decades ago, to a single man of enigmatic origins. We call this enigmatic figure the 'Master.'" (excerpt) The final pages of Doves and Dasein is reserved for an essay on Martin Heidegger's concept of 'Dasein.' 'Dasein' is a philosophical term that was popularized in the ground-breaking Being and Time Sein und Zeit], an existential magnum opus written in 1927 by the prominent twentieth-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The term 'Dasein' refers to the Being that is particular to the human being, specifically in the relation one has to the world, to their own death, to others, and to the self. The essay entitled 'Dasein, Suicide, & Beauty' focuses on the human-only capacity to commit suicide as a consequence of our acute awareness of the inextricability and inevitability of suffering, and furthermore, how the phenomenon of beauty carries the concealed power to pull humans away from the irreversible action of suicide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999422902
• ISBN13: 9781999422905
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Jeremy Forsythe
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"