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.
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.
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and Beyond Bauman: Creative Excursions and Critical Engagements, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; and Imaginative Methodologies: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research (all available from Routledge).
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Introduction: Towards a Postmortal Society - Paving the Pathway for a Sociology of Immortality Michael Hviid Jacobsen 1. How the Dead Survive - Ancestors, Immortality, Memory Tony Walter 2. The Future of Death and the Four Pathways to Immortality Guy Brown 3. Individualised Immortality in Liquid-Modern Times - Teasing Out the Topic of Symbolic Immortality in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman Michael Hviid Jacobsen 4. Terror Management Theory - Surviving the Awareness of Death One Way or Another Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg 5. The Immortalisation of Celebrities David Giles 6. The Contemporary Imaginary of Work - Symbolic Immortality within the Postmodern Corporate Discourse Adriana Teodorescu 7. The Neural Identity - Strategies of Immortality in Contemporary Western Culture Gianfranco Pecchinenda 8. Toward Post-Human - The Dream of Never-Ending Life Nunzia Bonifati 9. Digital Immortality or Digital Death? - Contemplating Digital End of Life Planning Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman 10. The Virtual Concept of Death William Sims Bainbridge 11. The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures Michael C. Kearl
Introduction: Towards a Postmortal Society - Paving the Pathway for a Sociology of Immortality Michael Hviid Jacobsen 1. How the Dead Survive - Ancestors, Immortality, Memory Tony Walter 2. The Future of Death and the Four Pathways to Immortality Guy Brown 3. Individualised Immortality in Liquid-Modern Times - Teasing Out the Topic of Symbolic Immortality in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman Michael Hviid Jacobsen 4. Terror Management Theory - Surviving the Awareness of Death One Way or Another Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg 5. The Immortalisation of Celebrities David Giles 6. The Contemporary Imaginary of Work - Symbolic Immortality within the Postmodern Corporate Discourse Adriana Teodorescu 7. The Neural Identity - Strategies of Immortality in Contemporary Western Culture Gianfranco Pecchinenda 8. Toward Post-Human - The Dream of Never-Ending Life Nunzia Bonifati 9. Digital Immortality or Digital Death? - Contemplating Digital End of Life Planning Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman 10. The Virtual Concept of Death William Sims Bainbridge 11. The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures Michael C. Kearl
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