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The Dominion of the Dead

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (May 27, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0226317935
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226317939
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #412,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsnil nisi bonum
By Alvaro Lewis on October 22, 2003
Format: Hardcover
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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5.0 out of 5 starsDominion of the Dead thru Amazon
By steelmanner on October 16, 2014
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This book is by far the most thorough response to the Dead as well as all that might be historically applicable...I have read this in the past as a pillow book, in that only a few pages at a time , due to the thickness of the information/content...and then there is the appendix for all the future books you might feel so inclined to discover........I have shared this book with many people around the world....I highly recommend the manner in which Robert Pogue Harrison brings the content forward ... trustworthy by far....should you feel to navigate this realme with as broad a scope as is possible, then these writings are the ticket....actually,reading all that Robert Pogue Harrison has in print is highly recommended....
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