Notes on a New Necrology

How does one review a book that both succeeds and fails spectacularly, that breaks new ground and then plants what is probably unfertile seed, that rather pretentiously stakes a claim to a “new area” of inquiry while grossly neglecting related extant work? The Twentieth Century Book of the Dead is a difficult book to read that has frustrated, excited, and stimulated me for enough weeks now that, though I still don't know how to review it, I am motivated to offer some advice to the naive reader which might at least assist him to read it (for it is indeed well worth the effort), and to add some comments of my own

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• Death in Life

  Robert Liberman, Robert Paul Liberman•Psychosomatic Medicine•1969

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• Conflict and Defense

  J E Meade, Kenneth E Boulding et al.•The Economic Journal•1963

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• Essays on Sociology and Social Psychology

  Arthur K Davis, Karl Mannheim et al.•American Sociological Review•1954

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• History and Human Survival

  Owen D Owens, Robert Jay Lifton•Journal for the Scientific Study…•1971

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