This book integrates pragmatism and transcendental philosophy in examining the most serious problem defining the human condition, death and mortality. Its analysis of human limits and finitude is intended to be relevant to the concerns of philosophers specializing in, for example, transcendental philosophy, philosophical anthropology, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of religion. Mortality is studied as providing a necessary framework within which questions concerning the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of human life become possible.

Preface
1.Introduction
2.Mortality and philosophical anthropology
3.The self as a limit
4.Death-mine or the other's?
5.Death, guilt, and (in)equality
6.Controlling death? Pragmatist philosophy of mortality
7.Conclusion: a pragmatic transcendental anthropology

Professor of Philosophy of Religion since 2014. For cv and a full list of publications, see https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/sami-pihlstr%C3%B6m.