ISBN:
9781315601700
,
9781317077213
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (3 volumes pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Series Statement:
Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Mortality Social aspects
;
Immortalism Social aspects
;
Mortality ; Social aspects
;
Immortalism ; Social aspects
Abstract:
1. How the dead survive : ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- 2. The future of death and the four pathways to immortality / Guy Brown -- 3. Individualised immortality in liquid-modern times : teasing out the topic of symbolic immortality in the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- 4. Terror management theory : surviving the awareness of death one way or another / Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg -- 5. The immortalisation of celebrities / David Giles -- 6. The contemporary imaginary of work : symbolic immortality within the postmodern corporate discourse / Adriana Teodorescu -- 7. The neural identity : strategies of immortality in contemporary western culture / Gianfranco Pecchinenda -- 8. Toward post-human : the dream of never-ending life / Nunzia Bonfati -- 9. Digital immortality or digital death? : contemplating digital end of life planning / Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman -- 10. The virtual concept of death / William Sims Bainbridge -- 11. The proliferation of postselves in American civic and popular cultures / Michael C. Kearl.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315601700
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317077237
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317077237
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