The Immortalization Commission

The Strange Quest to Cheat Death

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John Gray

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A revelatory secret history of our delusional quest for immortality SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for answers, but with the twentieth century came ideas from evolution and politics to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands. Such ideas went on to have both trivial and terrible effects- from a sweeping craze of seances to the mass-murders of the Stalinist terror. Gray raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human.

Author Biography:

John Gray is most recently the acclaimed author of Black Mass- Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, Straw Dogs- Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern, Heresies- Against Progress and Other Illusions and False Dawn- The Delusions of Global Capitalism. Having been Professor of Politics at Oxford, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, he now writes full time. His books and articles have been translated into over thirty languages. His selected writings, Gray's Anatomy, were published by Penguin in 2009.

Release date NZ

January 26th, 2012

Author

John Gray

Pages

288

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Dimensions

129x198x17

ISBN-13

9780141041889

Product ID

18335667

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