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Autore: | Herzog Don |
Titolo: | Defaming the Dead / / Don Herzog |
Pubblicazione: | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 346.03401 |
Soggetto topico: | Dead |
Human rights | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Embezzled, Diddled, and Popped -- 2. Tort's Landscape -- 3. Speak No Evil -- 4. Legal Dilemmas -- 5. Corpse Desecration -- 6. "This Will Always Be There" -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question-can you libel or slander the dead?-and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life. A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes-and what differences it doesn't-and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Defaming the Dead |
ISBN: | 0-300-22771-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910792748403321 |
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