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Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: Political Life After Death
by Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: Political Life After Death
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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. 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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- Michigan State University Brand
- Sep 1, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9781611865080 ISBN-13:
- 1611865085 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.5 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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