ISBN:
9781472485588
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 241 Seiten
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Diagramme
Series Statement:
Studies in death, materiality and the origin of time
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Mortality Social aspects
;
Immortalism Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Unsterblichkeit
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: towards a postmortal society : paving the pathway for a sociology of immortality / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- How the dead survive - ancestors, immortality, memory / Tony Walter -- The future of death and the four pathways to immortality / Guy Brown -- Individualised immortality in liquid-modern times : teasing out the topic of symbolic immortality in the sociology of zygmunt bauman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Terror management theory : surviving the awareness of death one way or another / Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg -- The immortalisation of celebrities / David Giles -- The contemporary imaginary of work : symbolic immortality within the postmodern corporate discourse / Adriana Teodorescu -- The neural identity : strategies of immortality in contemporary western culture / Gianfranco Pecchinenda -- Toward post-human : the dream of never-ending life / Nunzia Bonfati -- Digital immortality or digital death? : contemplating digital end of life planning / Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman -- The virtual concept of death / William Sims Bainbridge -- The proliferation of postselves in american civic and popular cultures / Michael C. Kearl -- Index
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