Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: political life after death
"Death is a social and political as well as a biological phenomenon. Efforts to regulate death have become an important source of power for states and secular rulers. States not only threaten death to their enemies but hope to secure popular loyalty and obedience by extending citizens' liv...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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East Lansing
Michigan State University Press
[2024]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Death is a social and political as well as a biological phenomenon. Efforts to regulate death have become an important source of power for states and secular rulers. States not only threaten death to their enemies but hope to secure popular loyalty and obedience by extending citizens' lives, by promising to effectuate the post mortem fulfillment of citizens' ante mortem desires, and by offering loyal citizens ersatz forms of immortality the state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 156 pages 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781611865127 9781611865080 |
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| spelling | Ginsberg, Benjamin 1947- Verfasser (DE-588)133187438 aut Big Brother and the Grim Reaper political life after death Benjamin Ginsberg East Lansing Michigan State University Press [2024] 156 pages 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The thanatotic contract -- The secularization of death : Big Brother and the Grim Reaper -- The rights of the dead -- The power of the dead -- Oblivion -- Resurrection -- Death and change "Death is a social and political as well as a biological phenomenon. Efforts to regulate death have become an important source of power for states and secular rulers. States not only threaten death to their enemies but hope to secure popular loyalty and obedience by extending citizens' lives, by promising to effectuate the post mortem fulfillment of citizens' ante mortem desires, and by offering loyal citizens ersatz forms of immortality the state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void"-- Death / Political aspects Thanatology / Political aspects Secularism / Political aspects Memorialization / Political aspects Commémorations / Aspect politique |
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