Name: Defaming the Dead
Brand: Yale University Press
SKU: 9780300221541
Price: 365.75 HKD
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Author: Don Herzog
ISBN: 9780300221541

Defaming the Dead

By Don Herzog

Yale University Press May 2018

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ISBN-13: 9780300221541
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: May 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased’s interests should be protected.

This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question—can you libel or slander the dead?—and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life.

A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes—and what differences it doesn’t—and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining.