EAN: 9780691180939

THE WORK OF THE DEAD - THOMAS W LAQUEUR KARTONI...

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city
walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In
The Work of the Dead  acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has
universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains.
Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age  the dead body still matters- for
individuals  communities  and nations. A remarkably ambitious history  The Work of the Dead
offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the
dead  from antiquity to the twentieth century.

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