Remembering and Disremembering the Dead: Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption Over Time

by Floris Tomasini

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137538279
• ISBN13: 9781137538277
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"