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Aug 2023
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Berislav Marusić, "On the Temporality of...

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When someone close to us dies, intense grief is an expected and reasonable response. But while the reason for our grief – the loss of the person who is the object of our grief – doesn’t change, our grief itself diminishes. This diminishment is also expected, but how can it be reasonable if the reason for the grief hasn’t changed?  In On the Temporality of Em ... Show More
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