Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at S¿dert¿rn University in Sweden.

Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University in Sweden.

Introduction
1. Thinking after Life: Historicity and Having-Been
2. Thanatologies: On the Social Meanings of Burial
3. Ancestrality: Ghosts, Forefathers, and Other Dead
4. Necropolitics: Contested Communities and Remains of the Dead
5. Ossuary Hermeneutics: Necropolitical Sites of Archaeology
6. Visiting the Land of the Dead: History as Necromancy
7. The Tomb of Metaphysics: Writing, Memory, and the Arts of Survival