Being With The Dead by Hans Ruin
Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
A philosophical exploration of how human communities are constituted through ongoing relations with the dead, showing how burial rites, graves, monuments, archives, and commemorative practices shape political life and the emergence of historical consciousness. Bridging phenomenology with archaeology, anthropology, and literature, it examines how addressing ancestors—across tragedy, civic rituals, and contemporary struggles over museums and repatriation—organizes social bonds, law, and identity, and argues for an ethics of care that recognizes the dead as enduring interlocutors in the present.
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- 2019
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- English
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