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The Future of Immortality Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia

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The Future of Immortality Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia

Bernstein, Anya  
9780691185958
Russland Gerontologie Lebensverlängerung Unsterblichkeit Utopie
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Autor/Hrsg./Bearb.: Bernstein, Anya   Fragezeichen
Titel: The Future of Immortality
Untertitel: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia
Von: Anya Bernstein
Ort: Princeton, NJ
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Jahr: [2019]
Jahr: © 2019
Umfang: 1 online resource
Details: 17 b/w illus. 3 tables
Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
Band: Band 23
Anmerkungen: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
Anmerkungen: In English
Abstract: A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very limits of the human.The Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of characters, from the owners of a small cryonics outfit to scientists inaugurating the field of biogerontology, from grassroots neurotech enthusiasts to believers in the Cosmist ideas of the Russian Orthodox thinker Nikolai Fedorov. Bernstein puts their debates and polemics in the context of a long history of immortalist thought in Russia, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. If aging is a curable disease, do we have a moral obligation to end the suffering it causes? Could immortality be the foundation of a truly liberated utopian society extending beyond the confines of the earth—something that Russians, historically, have pondered more than most? If life without end requires radical genetic modification or separating consciousness from our biological selves, how does that affect what it means to be human?As vividly written as any novel, The Future of Immortality is a fascinating account of techno-scientific and religious futurism—and the ways in which it hopes to transform our very being
ISBN: 9780691185958
DOI: 10.1515/9780691185958
Schlagwort: Russland ; Gerontologie ; Lebensverlängerung ; Unsterblichkeit ; Utopie
Weitere Schlagwörter: Anthropology Russia (Federation) Death Future, The Human body Immortality
Sprache: Englisch
Volltext E-Book: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185958?locatt=mode:legacy
Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185958
Katkey: 1779249