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"Occult," a 1902 international encyclopedia of religion tells us, is derived "from Latin occultus—Hidden," and
is applied to the assumption that insight into and control over nature is to be obtained by mysterious or magical procedures and by long apprenticeship in secret lore. The physical science of the middle ages, alchemy and astrology, and in modern times spiritualism, theosophy, and palmistry contain various factors of occult lore. Such doctrines, known as occultism, fall outside the realm of modern science. See MAGIC.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of the Dead -- PART I THE DEEP TIME OF THE DEAD -- 1 Do the Dead Matter? -- 2 The Dead Body and the Persistence of Being -- 3 The Cultural Work of the Dead -- PART II PLACES OF THE DEAD -- 4 The Churchyard and the Old Regime -- The Development of the Churchyard -- Language -- Place -- The Church and Churchyard in the Landscape -- Necrogeography -- Necrobotany -- Necrotopology and Memory -- The Life and Afterlife of the Churchyard in Literature -- The Passage of the Dead to the Churchyard -- Law -- Exclusion from the Churchyard -- The Claims of the Dead Body on the Parish Churchyard -- The Claims of the Parish on the Dead Body -- The Economics of Churchyard Burial -- The Right to Burial and the Crisis of the Old Regime -- Enlightenment Scandals -- Voltaire -- David Hume -- 5 The Cemetery and the New Regime -- The Danger of the Dead and the Rise of the Cemetery -- Genealogies of the New Regime -- Imagination: Elysium, Arcadia, and the Dead of the Eighteenth Century -- Cimetière du Père- Lachaise -- Distant Lands and the Imperial Imagination -- The Age of the Cemetery -- Novelty -- Necrogeography and Necrobotany -- Cemeteries and Capitalism -- Religious Pluralism in the Age of the Cemetery -- Reform, Revolution, and the Cemetery -- Class, Family, and the Cemetery -- Putting the Dead in Their Place: Pauper Funerals and Proper Funerals, Burials and Reburials -- Disrupted Bodies -- PART III NAMES OF THE DEAD -- 6 The Names of the Dead in Deep Time -- Names of the Dead in Times of War -- Names of the Dead in Times of Peace -- 7 The Rise of the Names of the Dead in Modern History -- 8 The Age of Necronominalism -- Names over Bodies -- Names and the Absent but Present Body -- Monumental Names -- Names of the Vanished Dead -- 9 The Names of the Great War.

Marx's Fate begins with a quote from W. B. Yeats, who says that he "often has had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought." There is no one Myth for anyone, including Jerry Seigel, but there is, I think, in his work an "inner sameness and continuity," as Erik Erikson would put it, which is matched, once we reflect on the matter, by a "continuity of [his] meaning for others."

AbstractThis essay is an exchange between friends and scholars Thomas Laqueur and Alexander Nehamas. Laqueur offers a number of possible answers to the question "Why is a dog a man's best friend?" as he explicates and analyzes a varied historical record of archaeological evidence, philosophy, art, and literature. Laqueur builds on Aristotle's conception of friendship as he explores what types of friendships we humans have with dogs and how such relationships may benefit both species. Nehamas responds to Laqueur's text and Aristotle on philia as he traces the limits of human relationships with dogs as well as human friends.

L'historien américain de la sexualité explique que le corps naturel change selon les différentes manières de le décrire : c'est le destin qui fait l'anatomie. La période contemporaine est marquée par l'idéal d'un corps sur mesure pour chacun selon son identité sexuelle.