The Immortalization Commission - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immortalization Commission write by John Gray. This book was released on 2011-04-12. The Immortalization Commission available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A great philosopher will change the way you think about your life. For most of human history, religion provided a clear explanation of life and death. But in the late 19th and early 20th centuries new ideas — from psychiatry to evolution to Communist — seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands. We would ourselves become God. This is the theme of a remarkable new book by one of the world's greatest lving philosophers. It is a brilliant and frightening look at the problems and opportunities of a world coming to grips with humankind's now solitary, unaided place in the universe. Gray takes two major examples: the belief that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, and the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals — popularized through mediums and automatic writing — that there was a non-religious form of life after death. Gray presents an extraordinary cast of philosophers, journalists, politicians, charlatans and mass murderers, all of whom felt driven by a specifically scientific and modern world view. He raises a host of fascinating questions about what it means to be human. The implications of Gray's book will haunt its readers for the rest of their lives.
The Immortalization Commission
The Immortalization Commission - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immortalization Commission write by John Gray. This book was released on 2011-10-27. The Immortalization Commission available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for answers, but with the twentieth century came ideas from evolution and politics to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands. Such ideas went on to have both trivial and terrible effects: from a sweeping craze of séances to the mass-murders of the Stalinist terror. Gray 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.
The Silence of Animals
The Silence of Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Silence of Animals write by John Gray. This book was released on 2013-06-04. The Silence of Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--
The Soul of the Marionette
The Soul of the Marionette - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soul of the Marionette write by John Gray. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Soul of the Marionette available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
The Immortalization Commission
The Immortalization Commission - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immortalization Commission write by John Gray. This book was released on 2011-03-29. The Immortalization Commission available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title At 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 now 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 nonreligious 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).
