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The study of grief has been taken up across disciplines in various ways. For some, grief is approached with an emphasis on individual symptoms and responses that are similarly oriented toward individual grievers. For others, more attention is paid to the ways grief is a dynamic and relational process.
Over the course of eight weeks, we will read selected, open-access works from philosophers who’ve taken the latter approach, considering grief’s “cultural, existential and phenomenological” dimensions.* I’ll offer an overview of the week’s paper in case you did not have time to read it, and then we’ll discuss it together with prompts.
We will look at writings on topics including grief as a process of engaging lost possibilities, grief over non-death losses, ecological grief, grief and narrative, and grief’s vocational and dedicational aspects.
Please note: This group is not a grief support group, is not a therapeutic offering, and is not geared toward providing a comprehensive review of philosophies of grief. Rather, it is a dip into a selection of works that I’ve found intriguing and useful for thinking about and experiencing significant loss, and hope you will too.
Dates & Times: Saturdays from 11am-1pm ET, January 7 through February 25.
Fee: $125 for eight weeks
*I am referencing the 2021 text Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience, edited by Allan Køster and Ester Holte Kofod.
The study of grief has been taken up across disciplines in various ways. For some, grief is approached with an emphasis on individual symptoms and responses that are similarly oriented toward individual grievers. For others, more attention is paid to the ways grief is a dynamic and relational process.
Over the course of eight weeks, we will read selected, open-access works from philosophers who’ve taken the latter approach, considering grief’s “cultural, existential and phenomenological” dimensions.* I’ll offer an overview of the week’s paper in case you did not have time to read it, and then we’ll discuss it together with prompts.
We will look at writings on topics including grief as a process of engaging lost possibilities, grief over non-death losses, ecological grief, grief and narrative, and grief’s vocational and dedicational aspects.
Please note: This group is not a grief support group, is not a therapeutic offering, and is not geared toward providing a comprehensive review of philosophies of grief. Rather, it is a dip into a selection of works that I’ve found intriguing and useful for thinking about and experiencing significant loss, and hope you will too.
Dates & Times: Saturdays from 11am-1pm ET, January 7 through February 25.
Fee: $125 for eight weeks
*I am referencing the 2021 text Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience, edited by Allan Køster and Ester Holte Kofod.