| 书目名称 | Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe | | 编辑 | Günter Blamberger,Sudhir Kakar | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provides a cultural studies perspective on a fundamental human question.Includes contributions by renowned scholars and experts in their fields.Analyses how death and the Beyond find contemporary expr | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends any assignment of meaning to earthly existence as also to notions of worldly and otherworldly salvation. This central idea is addressed in the literature, arts, audiovisual media and other cultural artefacts of the two traditions. The chapters are based on two main assumptions: First, that one cannot report on the direct experience of death; so it is only possible to speak allegorically of it. Second, in contemporary Western societies, marked by structural atheism, people look at literature, the arts and mass media to study their depiction and reading of traditionally religious questions of disease, death and the Beyond. This is in contrast to Asian civilizations whose preoccupationwith death and Beyond is persistent and perhaps central to the civilizations’ highest thought. .The chapters cover a wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches, from psychoanalysis to religious, anthropologic | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | cycles of death and rebirth; death anxiety; posthumanism; biological immortality; science fiction and af | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6707-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-3892-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-10-6707-5 | | copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 |
The information of publication is updating
|
|
发表于 2025-3-21 18:46:13
