How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language, thought, and culture. A highly readable book of great interest to a wide audience, it ensures that readers will never think of life, death, or themselves, the same way again.

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Nothing at the Heart of Existence -- 2 Life and Many Modes of Bodily Non-being -- 3 Language, Absence, Negation, and Context -- 4 Death and the Possibilities of Human Morality -- 5 A Mythological/Mathematical Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.