Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Amherst CollegeISBN-13:9781943208104ISBN-10:1943208107UPC:9781943208104Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, Political, Death, Grief, BereavementSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCRR5MWD7D
Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead
The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Amherst CollegeISBN-13:9781943208104ISBN-10:1943208107UPC:9781943208104Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, Political, Death, Grief, BereavementSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCRR5MWD7D
James R. Martel is professor of political science at San Francisco State University. A scholar at the intersection of political theory, continental philosophy, anarchism, post-colonial theory, and theories of gender and sexuality, his books include The Misinterpellated Subject (2017); Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat (2007); How Not to be Governed: Readings...
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