Being with the Dead : Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness /

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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed tec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruin, Hans (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:Cultural Memory in the Present
Temas:
Burial > Philosophy.
Dead.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Memory (Philosophy)
Memory (Philosophy).
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology.
Ancestrality.
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Burial.
Death.
Deconstruction.
History.
Memory.
Necropolitics.
Phenomenology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Thinking after Life
  • 2. Thanatologies
  • 3. Ancestrality
  • 4. Necropolitics
  • 5. Ossuary Hermeneutics
  • 6. Visiting the Land of the Dead
  • 7. The Tomb of Metaphysics
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Index

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