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Postmortal Society - Towards a Sociology of Immortality (Paperback)
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Postmortal Society - Towards a Sociology of Immortality (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
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Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with
the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the
themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture,
shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and
human societies aspire to confront and deal with death, or even
seek to outlive it, as it were. Bringing together theoretical and
empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a
range of disciplines, Postmortal Society offers studies of the
strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying
to 'cheat' death or prolong life, the status of the dead in the
modern Western world, the effects of beliefs that address the
terror of death in other areas of life, the 'immortalisation' of
celebrities, the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds, symbolic
immortality through work, the implications of understanding
'immortality' in chemical-neuronal terms, and the apparent paradox
of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular,
capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that
explore humanity's attempts to deal with its own mortality in the
modern age, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists,
philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in
death and dying.
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