The tomb of the unknown soldier, modern mourning, and the reinvention of the mystical body από Wittman, Laura

Πίνακας περιεχομένων: “…PART ONE: Anonymity and Sacrifice -- Introduction: The Return of the Dead ; A Unanimous Idea ; Unanimity and confused bones ; The origins of the Unknown Soldier ; The primal scene -- Identification and Chorality ; Bones manifest themselves ; Recognition, or reaching across the divide of living and dead ; Sculpted water ; A silent inscription -- Sacrifice and the non finito ; Taking up anonymity ; Absolution ; Initiation -- PART TWO: Embodiment and Spectacle -- Introduction: The Undead Body, The Photographic Image, and the Religious Icon ; Embodiment and Imbestiamento ; Trauma and animality ; The symbolic journey ; The darkness within -- Mutilation and Spectacle ; Phantom pain, mutilation, and repetition ; Touching the absent body: the "Banner of Randaccio" ; Transmitting the experience of death: Promethean fire -- Mourning Transcendence and Reenchanting the Flesh ; Confronting Mortality ; Mourning Transcendence ; Modernity and the Mystical Body.…”