Traumatic Brain Injury as Phenomenological Death

James Brown
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James Brown: University of New Mexico, USA

Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2017, vol. 2, issue 1, 11-16

Abstract: The Heideggarian concept of phenomenological death is specifically relevant to a personal experience of traumatic brain injury and twenty-five-year survival. This paper argues that specific instances of traumatic brain injury (SITBI) provide insight to Heidegger’s phenomenology of death in “Being and Time†1. The discussion is based on pathology and from phenomena drawn from my first-hand experience of a SITBI. This paper highlights phenomena specific to this circumstance, however provides a basis for SITBI and wider applicability to traumatic brain injury. In addition to philosophical analysis, I insert sections of first-person experience, both in the text and as footnotes.

Keywords: Journal of Intellectual; Intellectual & Developmental; Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities; Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities; journal of intellectual disability research; journal of intellectual disabilities; journal of intellectual disability research impact factor; journal of intellectual property studies; open access publishers in usa; juniper publishers review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/GJIDD.2017.02.555580

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