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Being with the Dead

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Being with the Dead

By Hans Ruin

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About the book

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...Show more

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9781503607750

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Stanford University Press

Published year

2019

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