{"product_id":"death-burial-and-the-afterlife-dublin-death-studies-edited-by-philip-cottrell-wolfgang-marx","title":"Death, Burial, And The Afterlife; Dublin Death Studies; Edited by Philip Cottrell \u0026 Wolfgang Marx","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\"\u003eDeath is the ultimate commonality; the one thing that unites us as human beings and is - ironically - absolutely fundamental to our creative impulses. The need to construct a sense of meaning and permanency in the face of the inevitability of death and annihilation is arguably what drives and defines culture.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einvolving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration. The disciplines represented are as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ediverse as art history, classics, history, music, languages and literatures, and the approaches \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etaken reflect various aspects of contemporary death studies. These include the fear of death, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe role of death in shaping human identity, the 'taming' of death through ritual or aesthetic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esublimation, and the utilization of death - particularly dead bodies - to manipulate social \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand political ends.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe topics covered include the exhumation and reburial of Cardinal John Henry Newman; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe funerary monument of John Donne in his shroud; the funeral of Joseph Stalin; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe theme of mutilation and non-burial of the corpse in Homer's Iliad; the individual's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eencounter with death in the work of the German Philosopher Josef Pieper; the Requiem \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby the Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford; the imagery of death in Giovanni Verga's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enovel Mastro-don Gesualdo, and the changing attitudes toward death in the writings of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichel Foucault.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31943502266438,"sku":"693","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/products\/Death_Burial_AndTheAfterlife_DublinDeathStudies_EditedbyPhilipCottrell_WolfgangMarx.jpg?v=1593414366","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/death-burial-and-the-afterlife-dublin-death-studies-edited-by-philip-cottrell-wolfgang-marx","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}