Postmortal Society

Towards a Sociology of Immortality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Denmark) Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (Aalborg University

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Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. 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. Bringing together theoretical and empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a range of disciplines, Postmortal Society offers studies of the strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying to ‘cheat’ death or prolong life, the status of the dead in the modern Western world, the effects of beliefs that address the terror of death in other areas of life, the ‘immortalisation’ of celebrities, the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds, symbolic immortality through work, the implications of understanding ‘immortality’ in chemical-neuronal terms, and the apparent paradox of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular, capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that explore humanity’s attempts to deal with its own mortality in the modern age, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in death and dying.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-04-10
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781472485588

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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).

Introduction: Towards a Postmortal Society - Paving the Pathway for a Sociology of ImmortalityMichael Hviid Jacobsen1. How the Dead Survive - Ancestors, Immortality, MemoryTony Walter2. The Future of Death and the Four Pathways to ImmortalityGuy Brown3. Individualised Immortality in Liquid-Modern Times - Teasing Out the Topic of Symbolic Immortality in the Sociology of Zygmunt BaumanMichael Hviid Jacobsen4. Terror Management Theory - Surviving the Awareness of Death One Way or AnotherUri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg5. The Immortalisation of CelebritiesDavid Giles6. The Contemporary Imaginary of Work - Symbolic Immortality within the Postmodern Corporate DiscourseAdriana Teodorescu7. The Neural Identity - Strategies of Immortality in Contemporary Western CultureGianfranco Pecchinenda8. Toward Post-Human - The Dream of Never-Ending LifeNunzia Bonifati9. Digital Immortality or Digital Death? - Contemplating Digital End of Life PlanningCarla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman10. The Virtual Concept of DeathWilliam Sims Bainbridge11. The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular CulturesMichael C. Kearl