Dead Time

The book by researcher Svetlana Eremeeva is an analysis of the representations of military funerals in 2022 in the public space. The author sought to find out not so much how military men are buried today, but what it means for their loved ones, for society and the state as a whole. By defining the contours of the lifeworlds behind the wires of the dead, the author shows the untenability of the rhetoric about "brotherly" peoples of hardly a single culture. The study of the lifeworlds in Russia and Ukraine allows us to notice how different these countries are today in their socio-cultural parameters; at the same time, we trace the processes that have influenced the way this difference has intensified over the past 20 years. The study of the social functioning of grief, sorrow, and mourning fits into contemporary trends in humanitarian thought, with little or no representation in the Russian-speaking tradition.In the last 20 years, the problematics of human loss, death and mourning have become an integral part of humanitarian theories related to reflections on human dignity and principles of coexistence with others.