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The Dominion Of The Dead (Paperback)
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The Dominion Of The Dead (Paperback)
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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 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.
"The Dominion of the Dead" is a profound meditation on how the
thought of death shapes the communion of the living. A work of
enormous scope, intellect, and imagination, this book will speak to
all who have suffered grief and loss.
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