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Title: The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison ISBN: 0-226-31791-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: nil nisi bonum
Comment: As could be expected, Robert Pogue Harrison presents a thoughtful and elegant meditation on remembrance and the power of the dead for the living. It is curious to see how many patterns the dead fashion for us in our care for them. Though versions of Heideggerian phenomenology and the philology of Vico inform threads of the argument, at no time does the poetic work find itself in a bog of theory for the sake of theory. Also pleasing for this reader is Harrison's willingness to traverse the exigencies of the moment and its hyperpatriotic upwellings, (so common and gauche over the last few years,) so he can dwell on the traditional and lasting relations the dead and the living maintain. The passages on Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial resounded with an appropriately complex and awesome response. The argument's course runs through a dead realm with emphasis on Europe and the United States. Fruitful studies of the ancestral dead exist for Mayan and Chinese and Egyptian civilizations (to name a few), yet these do not fit the purview here. Such inclusion might have matured or at least ripened a western view on this mortal matter. I very much enjoyed this tour of thought through poetry, myth, memorial and monument. It does nothing if not enrich with shiny insights on the dead in our myths and lives.
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Title: Forests: The Shadow of Civilization by Robert Pogue Harrison ISBN: 0226318079 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Body of Beatrice by Robert Pogue Harrison ISBN: 0801866677 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter, Simon Schama ISBN: 0393050750 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0060188707 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary Lefkowitz ISBN: 0300101457 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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