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Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Cultural Memory in the Present) PDF

273 Pages·2019·3.6 MB·English
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by Hans Ruin| 2019| 273 pages| 3.6| English

About Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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 all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead. The premise of Being with the Dead is that we can explore our lives with the dead as a cross-cultural existential a priori out of which the basic forms of historical consciousness emerge. Care for the dead is not just about the symbolic handling of mortal remains; it also points to a necropolitics, the social bond between the dead and living that holds societies together-a shared space or polis where the dead are maintained among the living. Moving from mortuary rituals to literary representations, from the problem of ancestrality to technologies of survival and intergenerational communication, Hans Ruin explores the epistemological, ethical, and ontological dimensions of what it means to be with the dead. His phenomenological approach to key sources in a range of fields gives us a new perspective on the human sciences as a whole.

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Author:Hans Ruin
Publication Year:2019
ISBN:9780804791311
Pages:273
Language:English
File Size:3.6
Format:PDF
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