Loss: The Politics of Mourning

Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss—of warfare, disease, and political strife—this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors—political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists—expose the humane and produc...