Stories of Those Left Behind
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Köp båda 2 för 503 kr"Vinciane Despret studies reports of the dead interfering in peoples livesto contest, direct, encourage, or console them. This important book will induce psychotherapists to reconsider Freuds concept of the work of mourning and social scientists to understand in new ways the force of political and religious ancestors on society."Alphonso Lingis "Our Grateful Dead is a stirring and insightful study of the active, metamorphic relations that the dead maintain with the living. With characteristic generosity and grace, Vinciane Despret curates stories from dreams and letters, novels and television, organ donations and home funerals and seances, paying sensitive and subtle attention to the modes of practice and perception most conducive to heeding the enigmatic missives of the deadand making them real."Matthew Chrulew, coeditor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
Vinciane Despret is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Lige and the Free University of Brussels. The original French edition of Our Grateful Dead ( Au bonheur des morts) won the prestigious Prix des Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco. Her books include What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? and The Dance of the Arabian Babbler: Birth of an Ethological Theory, both from Minnesota. Stephen Muecke is professor of creative writing at Flinders University, South Australia. His many translations include works by Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray.
Contents Translators Note Stephen Muecke Our Grateful Dead 1. Taking Care of the Dead 2. Allowing Yourself to Be Instructed 3. The Ties That Keep the Living and the Dead Together 4. Watching Over the Things That Matter 5. Extending the Work: The Generosity of the Dead 6. Uncertain Thoughts 7. Putting Our Trust in Spirits: How to Call on Them 8. Protecting Voices Acknowledgments Notes