The Thanatology of Hope

Gëzim Qëndro (author)

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Title	The Thanatology of Hope
Contributor	Gëzim Qëndro (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0094.1.12
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/lapidari-volume-1/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Copyright	Qëndro, Gëzim
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2015-02-16
Long abstract	When confronted with an oxymoron like the title “The Thanatology of Hope,” the reader will probably think that it suffers from a referential uncertainty: the words seem to work separately, creating an ambiguous and un-convincing fusion of the two. Furthermore, in our cul-ture death and hope seem to exclude each other (hope dies last!). This is why the cemetery is perceived as a place of sorrow and loss which annihilates any discourse of hope, a topos where one thinks that Death was the end of the hopes of the unfortunate inhabitants of the necropolis.
Page range	pp. 61–66
Print length	6 pages
Language	English (Original)

When confronted with an oxymoron like the title “The Thanatology of Hope,” the reader will probably think that it suffers from a referential uncertainty: the words seem to work separately, creating an ambiguous and un-convincing fusion of the two. Furthermore, in our cul-ture death and hope seem to exclude each other (hope dies last!). This is why the cemetery is perceived as a place of sorrow and loss which annihilates any discourse of hope, a topos where one thinks that Death was the end of the hopes of the unfortunate inhabitants of the necropolis.