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The Future of Immortality
Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia
Taschenbuch von Anya Bernstein
Sprache: Englisch

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As 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, from Fedorov in the nineteenth century through the experiments of Soviet scientists to today, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. Along the way, she draws out the ethical and philosophical implications of an end to human mortality. 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 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, from Fedorov in the nineteenth century through the experiments of Soviet scientists to today, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. Along the way, she draws out the ethical and philosophical implications of an end to human mortality. 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?
Über den Autor
Anya Bernstein is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 296
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691182612
ISBN-10: 0691182612
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bernstein, Anya
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 233 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Anya Bernstein
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2019
Gewicht: 0,511 kg
preigu-id: 114900148
Über den Autor
Anya Bernstein is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 296
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691182612
ISBN-10: 0691182612
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bernstein, Anya
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 233 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Anya Bernstein
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2019
Gewicht: 0,511 kg
preigu-id: 114900148
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