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505 0 a| 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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On not dying secular immortality in the age of technoscience / Abou Farman.

Author/creator	Farman, Abou, 1966
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Description	1 online resource
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Secularism Immortality Ethnology Religion and science

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.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019027139
ISBN	9781452961903 epub
ISBN	cloth
ISBN	paperback

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