The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison

The Dominion of the Dead

Robert Pogue Harrison

224 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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,...

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