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Author: [French] Michel Ragon
Translator: Liu Heping et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Just as people prove the soul's permanent disappearance, it reappears. We can regard the emergence of the soul as a ghostly return, with these electrons wandering at night, passing through bodies or matter, ultimately heading toward planets. This is where physics and metaphysics unexpectedly meet. Only in the transitional space, in such moving symbols, does the traveling space persist: traveling through time and space, through the universe and non-material spaces. Are not the homeless, drifting souls like electrons searching for new bodies, new homes? The imagery of the afterlife is not the naive heavens and hells of paradise, but rather urban spatial planning. From this perspective, the space of the deceased is a complete space because it merges with the space of the living.
A sociological work has been published, but there are still no books discussing cemeteries, their design, and urbanization. Michel Ragon has devoted over a decade to this topic, collecting a vast amount of material. In The Underground Deep—Inquiries into the Realm of the Dead, the author argues that cemeteries are the deceased's second homes, and cemeteries are ideal reflections of cities. From ancient cemeteries located by roads to medieval cemeteries surrounding churches, Michel Ragon takes us to the 18th-century naturalist cemeteries, the 19th-century museum-cemeteries, and finally to modern cemeteries increasingly characterized by "clusters."
What is even more astonishing are the chapters with functionalist and death-related themes: the chaos of funeral rituals during the French Revolution, the plan to exile deceased Parisians to Ottoman districts, the promotion of cremation to save land, railway stations holding funerals, and modern morgues in hospitals equipped with air conditioning.
The Underground Deep—Inquiries into the Realm of the Dead has naturally become a historical book on burial customs across different eras and countries, touching on sociology, politics, and metaphysics. The tomb decorations as seen by Dante, Swedenborg, and others, the scenes of torture on execution grounds, the poems on 18th-century tombstones, the worship of bones and the five sacred bodies, the preservation and mummification of corpses, ghosts (homeless, drifting souls), funeral items, and buildings for commemorating the deceased.
Michel Ragon's book leaves readers chilled and amazed, yet its rigor makes it a true encyclopedia on the theme of "the space of the deceased."