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Robert Pogue Harrison

The Dominion of the Dead

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-226-31793-9
  • EAN: 9780226317939
  • Produktnummer: 1485528
  • Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 306 g
  • Gewicht: 306
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature and chair of the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. He is the author of The Body of Beatrice and Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

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