On not dying : secular immortality in the age of technoscience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Farman, Abou, 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Secularism. Immortality. Ethnology. Religion and science. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.