Postmortal Society (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a Sociology of Immortality
Redaktion: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317077220
• Artikelnr.: 48175806

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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