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Where are the dead? What are they doing? What kind of a process is dying? What relationships exist among the dead themselves, and between the dead and those in the world they have left behind? Modern philosophers argue that the idea of disembodied survival - to which many believers pay lip service - is incoherent, and that there can be evidence neither for nor against something incoherent. By contrast, this book argues, the idea of an embodied survival (albeit a form of embodiment differing from our present embodiment) makes perfect sense in itself and fits much better with the alleged evidence for post-mortem survival. Exploring post-mortem survival, Where are the Dead? uses a variety of empirical data, alongside mythological, legendary and purely fictional material, to illustrate how the less familiar idea of embodied post-mortem survival might actually 'work' in some real afterlife environment. By asking questions about the nature and whereabouts of the afterlife, and about what it might be like to be dead, the book explores themes nowadays relatively neglected even in disciplines explicitly concerned with ideas about death, dying and life after death.Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-139781472484192
eBay Product ID (ePID)223506299
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhere Are the Dead?: Exploring the Idea of an Embodied Afterlife
AuthorPeter Moore
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages244 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorPeter Moore
Topic AreaSocial Psychology
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom