Das Leben vom Tode her
Zur Kulturgeschichte einer Grenzziehung
[Life Viewed from Death. On the Cultural History of a Demarcation]

The boundary between life and death is, on the one hand, malleable and indistinct. On the other hand, it is absolute, opaque, and of great impact. Today, this double determination is particularly evident. And yet, the boundary between life and death, between the living and the dead, has always been precarious.

This volume investigates this issue from different (inter)disciplinary and historical perspectives: What does it mean to think and practice life from the perspective of death? The diverse definitional efforts to draw such a boundary as well as the adjacent symbolic systems, cultural techniques, and narratives involved are analyzed from the perspective of the history of religion, science, and culture. Who counts as dead, what can be defined as alive, and what effects does the knowledge on these differentiations bring about? And how do we grasp the relationship between the living and the dead?

Verfügbare Volltexte auf dem Publikationsserver CompaRe:

• Jenseits des Todestriebs. Freuds Lebenswissenschaft an der Schwelle von Natur- und Kulturwissenschaft
  Sigrid Weigel
• Leben jenseits des Lebens. Die Transformation der Beziehung von Leben und Tod durch den Nationalsozialismus
  Falko Schmieder
• Bis heute kennt niemand sein Grab. Moses’ Tod und sein Nachleben
  Daniel Weidner
• Auferweckung als Programm. Entgrenzungen des Lebendigen in der russischen Moderne
  Tatjana Petzer
• Natürliche Auferstehungen. Wiederbelebung unter dem Mikroskop
  Cornelius Reiber
• Jenseits von Leben und Tod – Geschlechterimaginationen biologischer Lebensbegriffe
  Kerstin Palm