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Publisher description:##Counter 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. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn.

MAD-faculty 15 --- dood --- sociale aspecten --- psychologische aspecten --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture

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In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth. "Forests is one of the most remarkable essays on the human place in nature I have ever read, and belongs on the small shelf that includes Raymond Williams' masterpiece, The Country and the City. Elegantly conceived, beautifully written, and powerfully argued, [Forests] is a model of scholarship at its passionate best. No one who cares about cultural history, about the human place in nature, or about the future of our earthly home, should miss it.-William Cronon, Yale Review "Forests is, among other things, a work of scholarship, and one of immense value . . . one that we have needed. It can be read and reread, added to and commented on for some time to come."-John Haines, The New York Times Book Review

Forests in literature. --- Forests and forestry in literature --- Thematology --- biological sciences, trees, sociology, western thought, philosophy, cultural imagination, ecological dilemmas, insightful, beautifully written, environmentalism, environment, conservation, wildlife, mythology, essays, essay collection, history, culture, human place, literature, criticism, enlightenment, nostalgia, forestry, biology, botany, humanity, social issues, activism, geography, metaphysics, heidegger, relationship with nature.

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Humans have long turned to gardens& both real and imaginary& for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With 'Gardens', Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur'an; Plato's Academy and Epicurus's Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt& all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, 'Gardens' is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, 'Forests' and 'The Dominion of the Dead'. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility& and its enduring importance to humanity.

Gardens --- History.

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Ce livre prend à bras-le-corps une question simple, à laquelle il est difficile de répondre : quel âge avons-nous ? Pour Robert Harrison, les humains n'ont pas seulement un âge biologique, évolutionnaire et géologique : ils ont aussi un âge culturel. Ils s'inscrivent dans une histoire qui préexistait à leur arrivée et continuera après leur départ. Aujourd'hui, dans le sillage de la science et des nouvelles technologies, un écart vertigineux se creuse entre nous et nos anciens, notre présent et notre histoire, et nous fait perdre nos repères. Tout ce que nous savons avec certitude, c'est que nous sommes étrangement jeunes et immensément vieux. Cette ère où nous entrons est-elle celle d'une renaissance ? Combinant philosophie de l'histoire et philosophie de l'âge, pensée scientifique et savoir littéraire, Robert Harrison montre ceci : le plus grand service qu'une société puisse rendre à ses jeunes, c'est de faire d'eux des héritiers plutôt que des orphelins de l'histoire.

Culture --- History --- Neoteny. --- Youthfulness --- Age --- Aging --- Philosophy. --- Anthropological aspects. --- Neoteny --- Maturation (Psychology)