LEADER 03729nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910960534703321 005 20240506193922.0 010 $a9786612584794 010 $a9781282584792 010 $a1282584790 010 $a9780226317922 010 $a0226317927 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226317922 035 $a(CKB)2670000000019444 035 $a(EBL)534584 035 $a(OCoLC)635292252 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000416132 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416132 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10420546 035 $a(PQKB)11235400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC534584 035 $a(DE-B1597)524770 035 $a(OCoLC)1135612528 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226317922 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL534584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389550 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL258479 035 $a(Perlego)1853361 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000019444 100 $a20030131d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dominion of the dead /$fRobert Pogue Harrison 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226317915 311 08$a0226317919 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aDeath$xPsychological aspects 606 $aDeath$xSocial aspects 615 0$aDeath$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aDeath$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.9 686 $aCQ 7600$2rvk 700 $aHarrison$b Robert Pogue$0468238 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960534703321 996 $aThe dominion of the dead$94352712 997 $aUNINA