Big Brother and the Grim Reaper - Ginsberg, Benjamin
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"Death is a social and political as well as a biological phenomenon. Efforts to regulate death have become an important source of power for states and secular rulers. States not only threaten death to their enemies but hope to secure popular loyalty and obedience by extending citizens' lives, by promising to effectuate the post mortem fulfillment of citizens' ante mortem desires, and by offering loyal citizens ersatz forms of immortality the state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void"--…mehr

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"Death is a social and political as well as a biological phenomenon. Efforts to regulate death have become an important source of power for states and secular rulers. States not only threaten death to their enemies but hope to secure popular loyalty and obedience by extending citizens' lives, by promising to effectuate the post mortem fulfillment of citizens' ante mortem desires, and by offering loyal citizens ersatz forms of immortality the state treats the loyal dead with respect, sometimes offering them a place in the secular afterlife of honor and memory, while consigning the faithless to the void"--
Autorenporträt
Benjamin Ginsberg is David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including The Fall of the Faculty, Presidential Government, Downsizing Democracy, The Captive Public: Politics by Other Means, The Value of Violence, How the Jews Defeated Hitler, America's State Governments, What Washington Gets Wrong, and Warping Time. His college text, We the People, has been the nation's most frequently used American government text for the past three decades. Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973 and was professor of government at Cornell until 1992, when he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty.