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On not dying : secular immortality in the age of technoscience / Abou Farman

Farman, Abou, 1966- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020] [© 2020]

XIX, 360 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

2004

Erscheint auch als: Farman, Abou, 1966- : On not dying. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020] (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: On Not Dying / Farman, Abou (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5179-0810-2 (paperback); 978-1-5179-0809-6 (cloth)

978-1-4529-6190-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2019027138

OCoLC: 1192379751     

BL2747.8

306.9     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 08.37 (Religionsphilosophie)

*Anthropologie ; Unsterblichkeit      Zum Register

*Philosophie ; Technologie ; Unsterblichkeit      Zum Register

*Ethnologie ; Lebensverlängerung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Secularism ; Immortality ; Ethnology ; Religion and science

Introduction: the problems of discontinuity and indeterminacy in a secular world -- After life: varieties of immortality in the secular world -- Immortalism: the history of a futuristic movement -- Suspension: stretching time between the finite and the infinite -- Deanimation: matter, materialism and personhood beyond death -- Convergence: secular solipsism and the mind of the cosmos -- Progress and despair: the perverse dialectics of immortality as techno-civilizing mission.

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"Farman's Secular Immortal examines "immortalists," people who believe that it is possible for humans to achieve immortality through technoscientific means. These "immmortalists" include people who choose to have their bodies and/or brains frozen in the hopes that they can be reanimated, but also scientists and biologists engaged with extending the natural life of the human. Part history, part philosophical anthropology, and part ethnography, the work is based on communities of immortalists and advocates as well as institutions and organizations engaged in the definition of the end of life, including funeral homes, insurance companies, and lawyers. By looking at three such 'immortalist' strategies (cryonics, biogerontology, and artificial intelligence), Farman's study explores the cultural logic through which immortality projects move betwixt and between logics of religion, secularism, and philosophy"--