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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1000814708 Title: The dominion of the dead Author: Robert Pogue Harrison Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Bristol : University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0226317935 9780226317939 0226317919 9780226317915 OCLC:1000814708

  
  

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The dominion of the dead

Author:	Robert Pogue Harrison
Publisher:	Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2003.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us." "This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietman Veterans Memorial, Harrison considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn." "The Dominion of the Dead is a meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Death -- Psychological aspects. Death -- Social aspects. Bereavement. View all subjects
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