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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Pogue Harrison |
ISBN: | 0226317935 9780226317939 0226317919 9780226317915 |
OCLC Number: | 1000814708 |
Description: | 208 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The earth and its dead -- Hic jacet -- What is a house? -- The voice of grief -- The origin of our basic words -- Choosing your ancestor -- Hic non est -- The names of the dead -- The afterlife of the image. |
Responsibility: | Robert Pogue Harrison. |
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"This is the best book ever written about the cultural meaning of burial, our need to remember the dead (hence our need for history), and the deeper than etymological link between the human and the humus." - Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement; "A guide to the care of self (and society) through an analysis of the care for the dead, written in a manner that is inimitable, provocative and intellectually compelling." - Publishers Weekly; "A significant and learned treatise on something that should concern all of us." - Jack Matthews, Washington Times; "A penetrating look into the realm of the dead." - Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times Book Review; "Harrison... has a rare poetic intelligence that does not shrink from speculative immensity.... In a kind of literary seance, the voices of the dead - poets like Swinburne and Homer, writers like Conrad and Joyce, philosophers like Vico and Heidegger - shape the text.... By the end one begins to think differently about the living as well as the dead." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times; "A daring and ambitious book.... The subject is one in which the reader participates, and it will not end as long as there is someone to ponder it." - W. S. Merwin, New York Review of Books" Read more...


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- Death -- Social aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Death.
- Thanatology.
- Attitude to Death
- Bereavement
- Death
- Thanatology
- Mort -- Aspect psychologique.
- Mort -- Aspect social.
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- Mort.
- Thanatologie.
- mourning.
- deaths.
- Psychologie
- Tod
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- Begrafenissen.
- Psychologische aspecten.