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Immortalization Commission. --Richard Holloway, The Observer "An engrossing double-act play about scientific hubris.". --Marek Kohn, The Independent "The author is undoubtedly one of the most important and insightful polemicists currently writing in English.

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A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleAt 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 w in our own hands: humans could cease to be animals, defeat death, and become immortal.In The Immortalization Commission, the acclaimed political philosopher and critic John Gray takes a brilliant and frightening look at humankind's dangerous striving toward a scientific version of immortality. Probing the parallel faiths of Bolshevik God-builders, who sought to reshape the planet and psychical researchers, who believed they had evidence of a nreligious form of life after death, Gray raises fascinating questions about how such beliefs threaten the very nature of what it means to be human. He looks to philosophers, journalists, politicians, charlatans, and mass murderers who all felt driven by a specifically scientific and modern worldview and whose revolt against death resulted in a series of experiments that ravaged whole countries. An urgent examination of Darwin's post-religious legacy, The Immortalization Commission is an important work from one of Britain's leading public intellectuals ( The Wall Street Journal ).

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
ISBN-10
0374533237
ISBN-13
9780374533236
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183101496

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Place of Publication
NY
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Black Mass, Straw Dogs, and Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.
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Paperback / Softback
Language
English
Author(s)
John Gray
Format Details
Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Subject
Religion: Comparative, General & Référence
Imprint
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Country of Publication
United States

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