How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The Dominion of the Dead, " Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we...
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The Dominion of the Dead, ...
Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.
With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from from the gardens of ancient...
Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as fa...
Gumbrecht, Hans U. Harrison, Robert Pogue Hendrickson, Michael R.
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) gilt als einer der Väter der Quantenphysik; 1933 erhielt er zusammen mit Paul Dirac den Nobelpreis. Schrödingers Schriften regen auch heute noch an zu einem neuen Blick auf die Welt und sie haben nicht nur in der Physik weitreichende Folgen gehabt. Schrödinger gilt vielen Experten heute als ein Vordenker des Bioengineering, der Entwicklung von Techniken, mit denen sich Zellen, Gewebe und Lebewesen effizient manipulieren lassen. Und Philosophen attestieren ihm eine orientierende und provozierende Wirkung auf eine neue ökologisch motivierte Philosophie der...
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) gilt als einer der Väter der Quantenphysik; 1933 erhielt er zusammen mit Paul Dirac den Nobelpreis. Schrödingers Schr...
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at through that lens, many aspects of late modernity would suggest that we are older than ever, but Robert Pogue Harrison argues that we are also getting startlingly youngerin looks, mentality, and behavior. We live, he says, in an age of juvenescence. Like all of Robert Pogue...
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologic...
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outlast us. Looked at through that lens, many aspects of late modernity would suggest that we are older than ever, but Robert Pogue Harrison argues that we are also getting startlingly younger--in looks, mentality, and behavior. We live, he says, in an age of juvenescence. Like all of Robert Pogue...
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologic...
