By Dina Khapaeva
ISBN-10: 0472130269
ISBN-13: 9780472130269
This ebook hyperlinks the mounting call for for photos of violent demise with dramatic alterations in death-related social rituals. It bargains a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds—including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, and the Harry Potter series—with real-world sociocultural practices, examining the cultured, highbrow, and old underpinnings of the cult of dying. It additionally areas the social gathering of dying within the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the position performed through 20th-century French thought, posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights circulation in shaping the present antihumanist atmosphere.
This well timed, thought-provoking booklet will entice students of tradition, movie, literature, anthropology, and American and Russian reports, in addition to common readers trying to comprehend a defining phenomenon of our age.
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