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The Immortalization Commission: Science and…
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The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death (édition 2011)

par John Gray

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John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death 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. At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years, we turned to religion for our answers, but at the turn of the twentieth centuries ideas from evolution and politics seemed to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands. These ideas would have both trivial and terrible effects, from the nightmares of H. G. Wells's science fiction and the wild, sweeping craze of séances to the murder of millions in the Stalinist terror. 'Our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating age, time and death'   Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Elegant ... He is on to something important regarding the delusion that science consists of indefinite progress'   Sunday Telegraph 'One of the most important and insightful polemicists currently writing in English... humanism's most vocal critic'   Financial Times 'Gray is an engaging writer, an entertaining historian and a controversialist whose opinions can never be taken for granted'   New Statesman John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books include False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia and Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. His selected writings, Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2009.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death
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Info:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011), Hardcover, 288 pages
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This appears to have been stapled together from notes to some other book. They're good notes, but this is a pudding without a theme.
  ben_a | May 30, 2018 |
I would suggest reading Ch. 3 first , then go back and start with Ch. 1 ~ ( )
  Baku-X | Jan 10, 2017 |
The last part should be read first since it is this thesis Gray attempts to illustrate in the two preceding parts. If you have a melancholic temperament and is by nature a sceptic, you will probably enjoy this book. I did. ( )
  listog | Oct 7, 2014 |
I would suggest reading Ch. 3 first , then go back and start with Ch. 1 ~ ( )
  BakuDreamer | Sep 7, 2013 |
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John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death 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. At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years, we turned to religion for our answers, but at the turn of the twentieth centuries ideas from evolution and politics seemed to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands. These ideas would have both trivial and terrible effects, from the nightmares of H. G. Wells's science fiction and the wild, sweeping craze of séances to the murder of millions in the Stalinist terror. 'Our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating age, time and death'   Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Elegant ... He is on to something important regarding the delusion that science consists of indefinite progress'   Sunday Telegraph 'One of the most important and insightful polemicists currently writing in English... humanism's most vocal critic'   Financial Times 'Gray is an engaging writer, an entertaining historian and a controversialist whose opinions can never be taken for granted'   New Statesman John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books include False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia and Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. His selected writings, Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2009.

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