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Historical, Political, and Public Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914. (2025)
Book
Davies, D. J., McCullough, M., Sandy, M., Scarre, G., & Whitefield, R. (Eds.). (in press). Historical, Political, and Public Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914. Routledge

This is the third volume of a four-volume collection exploring Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914 from literary, spiritual, political, historical, musical, architectural, and intellectual perspectives. Accompa... Read More about Historical, Political, and Public Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914..

Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914. (2025)
Book
Scarre, G., & Whitefield, R. (Eds.). (in press). Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914. Routledge

This is the final volume of a four-volume collection exploring Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914 from literary, spiritual, political, historical, musical, architectural, and intellectual perspectives. Accompa... Read More about Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914..

Literary, Cultural, and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914. (2025)
Book
Davies, D. J., McCullough, M., Sandy, M., Scarre, G., & Whitefield, R. (Eds.). (in press). Literary, Cultural, and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914. Routledge

This is the first volume of a four-volume collection exploring Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914 from literary, spiritual, political, historical, musical, architectural, and intellectual perspectives. Accompa... Read More about Literary, Cultural, and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914..

Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique (2024)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2025). Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique. Mortality, 30(1), 273-286 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2024.2338284

Alkaline hydrolysis is an increasingly popular method of disposing of human corpses, which involves dissolving them into a solution of 95% water and 5% alkali, producing some bone residue and a liquid waste that can be flushed into the sewer system o... Read More about Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique.

How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage (2023)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2023). How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 30(4), 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739124000079

This paper discusses some of the major ethical issues that arise in connection with the widespread holding of cultural heritage by private collectors. If, as many people believe, and UNESCO has affirmed, cultural heritage is, in some morally signific... Read More about How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage.

Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory (2023)
Book
Scarre, G. (2023). Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34511-1

This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural cir... Read More about Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory.

Forgiveness and Ageing (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Forgiveness and Ageing. In C. Wareham (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing (146-160). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861168.012

Ought ageing people sometimes to be prepared to forgive old offences that it would not have been (so) appropriate for them to have forgiven at an earlier date? The question is tackled in the framework of a narrative conception of human life that focu... Read More about Forgiveness and Ageing.

Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness. In P. Satne, & K. M. Scheiter (Eds.), Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment (207-222). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77807-1_11

Is it ever admissible for a ‘third party’ to grant forgiveness to an offender for an injury committed against another person? A distinction should be drawn between cases in which someone offers her own forgiveness to an offender for an injury inflict... Read More about Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness.

Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly. In I. Gammel, & J. Wang (Eds.), Creative Resilience and COVID-19 (61-69). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213536-8

This essay discusses the increase in the sense of vulnerability that many older people felt with the onset of COVID-19, which reverses the sense of security in old age which has been developing over recent decades. Pascal Bruckner’s book A Brief Eter... Read More about Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly.

Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People? (2021)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2021). Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?. In S. M. Gardiner (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.013.34

This chapter aims, first, to investigate the metaphysical difficulties concerning the status of the dead and the basis of the obligations that the living owe to them and, second, to determine in more detail what rights the dead may have and what obli... Read More about Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?.