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On not dying : secular immortality in the age of technoscience /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.