John Gray
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141041889
- author:
- John Gray
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Genre:
- History, Political History, Marxism & Communism
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years, we turned to religion for our answers, but at the turn of the twentieth centuries, ideas from evolution and politics suggested that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands.
This book raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality, and exactly what it means to be human. John Gray's thought-provoking exploration of these themes has been praised for its elegance and insight, and is considered one of the most important and insightful polemicists writing in English today.
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