The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

by John Gray

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A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history, has provided an explanation for human life and a vision of what comes after it. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such beliefs came under relentless pressure as new ideas-from psychiatry to evolution to communism-seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands:...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374175063

ISBN13:9780374175061

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 7.7"

Related Subjects

History & Philosophy Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Philosophy Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Religion, Politics & State Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Spirituality

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