The dominion of the dead

書誌事項

The dominion of the dead

Robert Pogue Harrison

University of Chicago Press, 2003

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index

収録内容

  • 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

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内容説明

In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison explores 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. 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. A profound meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living, and a work of enormous scope, intellect, and imagination, this book speaks to all who have suffered grief and loss.

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