Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the topics of death, grief, and mourning. The collection moves from general questions concerning the putative badness of death and the meaning of loss through the phenomenology and psychology of grief, to personal and cultural aspects of mourning. Contributors examine topics such as theodicy and grief, reproductive loss, mourning as a form of recognition of value, the roots of grief in early childhood, grief in COVID-times, hope, phenomenology of loss, public commemoration and mourning rituals, mourning for a devastated culture, the Necropolis of Glasgow, and the "art of outliving." Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode, the volume provides a survey of the rich topography of methodologies, problems, approaches, and disciplines that are involved in the study of issues surrounding loss and our responses to it and guides the reader through a spectrum of perspectives, highlighting the connections and discontinuities between them.>

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Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode is assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and research fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.

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Introduction
Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode

Chapter 1: Hume and Doctor Johnson on Death
Jerry Valberg
Chapter 2: The Problem of Mourning
Eleonore Stump
Chapter 3: What Can the Roman Catholic Liturgies of the Dead Offer Mourners: Solidarity with the Deceased and Hopeful Protest?
Richard Conrad, OP
Chapter 4: Toward a Philosophical Theology of Pregnancy Loss
Amber L. Griffioen
Chapter 5: Mourning: A Phenomenology
Balázs M. Mezei
Chapter 6: Mourning and the Recognition of Value
Cathy Mason and Matt Dougherty
Chapter 7: Grieving and Mourning: The Psychology of Bereavement
Colin Murray Parkes
Chapter 8: Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning
John Cottingham
Chapter 9: Mourning and the Second-Person Perspective
Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode
Chapter 10: Mourning Academic Mentors and Mentees
Douglas J. Davies
Chapter 11: Mourning and Memory, Private and Public Dimensions
Anthony O'Hear
Chapter 12: The Work of Mourning
Roger Scruton
Chapter 13: Sidgwick's Dilemma
Leslie Chamberlain
Chapter 14: "Israel but