TY - BOOK AU - Harrison,Robert Pogue TI - The dominion of the dead SN - 9780226317922 (electronic bk.) AV - BF789.D4 H375 2003eb U1 - 306.9 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Death KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Mort KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Aspect social KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Death & Dying KW - bisacsh KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS KW - Death, Grief, Bereavement KW - Dood KW - gtt KW - Begrafenissen KW - Psychologische aspecten KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index; 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 N2 - "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 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 Vietman Veterans Memorial, Harrison 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 meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living."--Jacket UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=322673 ER -