The Dominion of the Dead

by Robert Pogue Harrison

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226317935
• ISBN13: 9780226317939
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"