Download or read book Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature written by John Limon and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death's Following refuses the call of twentieth-century philosophy to face death heroically, advocating instead the mediocrity of Heidegger's "they-self" and its inauthentic, distanced relation to death. Through literary criticism and autobiography, the book considers mediocrity the privileged site for imagining eternal absence: mediocrity as practice for being forgotten.