The Dominion of the Dead
por Robert Pogue Harrison
- Usado
- fair
- Brochura
- Condição
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0226317935
- ISBN 13
- 9780226317939
- Livreiro
-
Missoula, Montana, United States
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This elegantly conceived 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 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also 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.
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- Livreiro
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- SQ9894079
- Título
- The Dominion of the Dead
- Autor
- Robert Pogue Harrison
- Formato/Encadernação
- Some underlining and marginalia
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Fair
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0226317935
- ISBN 13
- 9780226317939
- Editorial
- University Of Chicago Press
- Local de publicação
- Chicago
- Data de publicação
- May 27, 2005
- Palavras-chave
- death, burial, phiosophy, mortality
- Catálogos de livreiros
- General Non-Fiction;