Defaming the Dead / / Don Herzog

• Autore: Herzog Don
• 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: 9780300227710; 030022771X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960916103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II