Big Brother and the Grim Reaper – Political Life After Death : Political Life After Death
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1611865085
ISBN-13
9781611865080
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Imprint
Michigan State University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2024
Print length
164 Pages
Weight
286 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.30 cms
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Sociology: death & dyingSociology: death and dyingPolitics & governmentPolitics and government
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States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. The state accomplishes this by treating the loyal dead with respect and consigning the faithless to the void.
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the state’s reach into the realm of the Grim Reaper, bureaucratizing death to strengthen the state’s hold on life. He notes that increasingly institutions are using the regulation of death as an essential source of power. They do this by not only threatening death to their enemies but also securing loyalty and obedience by extending citizens’ lives and promising to effectuate the postmortem fulfillment of citizens’ antemortem desires. The state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void.
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