Divining an Author: The Idea of Authorship in an Indian Religious Tradition
@article{Novetzke2003DiviningAA, title={Divining an Author: The Idea of Authorship in an Indian Religious Tradition}, author={Christian Lee Novetzke}, journal={History of Religions}, year={2003}, volume={42}, pages={213 - 242} }
No one quite understands why Jeremy Bentham, the British radical philosopher and mentor to eminent Orientalist James Mill, would choose a closet in a hall of University College, London, to be his tomb. The spectacle of the “auto-icon,” as he named the morbid installation prescribed in his will, puzzles almost anyone who sees it. His cadaver, as per his directions, was dissected and embalmed; his organs were donated to science. His vacated body was clad in his favorite suit and placed in a chair… CONTINUE READING
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