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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farman, Abou, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.