TY - BOOK ID - 78648431 TI - Being with the dead PY - 2018 SN - 1503607763 9781503607767 9780804791311 0804791317 9781503607750 1503607755 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Burial KW - Dead. KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies. KW - Memory (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Funerals KW - Mortuary ceremonies KW - Obsequies KW - Manners and customs KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Cremation KW - Cryomation KW - Dead KW - Mourning customs KW - Cadavers KW - Corpses KW - Deceased KW - Human remains KW - Remains, Human KW - Death KW - Corpse removals KW - Death notices KW - Embalming KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Obituaries KW - Burial customs KW - Burying-grounds KW - Graves KW - Interment KW - Archaeology KW - Public health KW - Coffins KW - Grave digging KW - Philosophy. KW - Ancestrality. KW - Anthropology. KW - Archaeology. KW - Burial. KW - Death. KW - Deconstruction. KW - History. KW - Memory. KW - Necropolitics. KW - Phenomenology. KW - Memory (Philosophy). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78648431 AB - 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 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. ER -