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Author : Philippe Lynes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786609960
This book offers the first philosophical treatment of biocultural sustainability and eco-deconstruction, presenting the most developed treatment of the notions of survival and life death in Derrida to date.
Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226826448
The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback. One of Jacques Derrida’s most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy of Western thought: life and death. In rethinking the relationship between life and death, Derrida undertakes a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of topics across philosophy, linguistics, and the life sciences. Derrida gave this seminar over fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the École normale supérieure in Paris to prepare students for the agrégation, a notoriously competitive exam. The theme for the exam that year was “Life and Death,” but Derrida made a critical modification to the title by dropping the coordinating conjunction. The resulting title of Life Death poses a philosophical question about the close relationship between life and death. Through close readings of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger, French geneticist François Jacob, and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem, Derrida argues that death must be considered neither as the opposite of life nor as the truth or fulfillment of it, but rather as that which both limits life and makes it possible. Derrida thus not only questions traditional understandings of the relationship between life and death but also ultimately develops a new way of thinking about what he calls “life death.”
Author : Louis Figuier
Publisher : Litres
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041331450
Author : Louis Figuier
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339543744
"The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science" by Louis Figuier. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Sondlo Leonard Mhlaba, PhD
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608608638
Sooner or later, we all face the questions explored in With or Without God, Life's Mysteries Continue, questions about the purpose of life, human mortality, spirituality, God, and life beyond the grave. The title conveys the author's tentativeness, perhaps humility. There are no postulates here, no truths to be revealed. These are ruminations. What makes these ruminations notable is that they are those of a man who, in his own words, has traversed centuries of human experience in 66 years and, in the process, acquired a unique perspective on life and nature. Mhlaba grew up in Zimbabwe, in what he calls a pre-modern age. He has lived in fear of spooks and ghosts, worshipping ancestral spirits, and was subject to the tyranny of witches and the machinations of unseen forces. He could have easily remained in that life as his forebears had done before him. Fortunately, his parents understood that he and his siblings would live much of their lives in a changed world, and prepared them through education. The book ends with a fascinating look into the future of humankind, taking the reader through uncharted territory and a new sense of awe about the meaning of life and what may lie beyond. Mhlaba went on to earn a Ph.D. and taught physics and mathematics at university level. He now lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Nancy. They have four grown children. Mhlaba is currently writing a book on global governance.
Author : Louis Figuier
Publisher : London, Bentley
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : UCAL:$B294436
Author : David Wallace-Wells
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525576723
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Author : Peter Douglas Ward,Donald Brownlee
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 0749950099
"This is the first real biography of the Earth - not only a brilliant portrait of the emergence and evolution of life on this planet, but a vivid and frightening look at Earth's remote future. Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee combine storytelling power with extreme scientific care, and their narrative is as transfixing as any of H.G. Wells's fantasies, but more enthralling, for Ward and Brownlee have real power to prognosticate. This is a book that makes one shiver, but also inspires one to wonder how humanity (if we survive in the short term) will fare in the distant future." Oliver Sachs Peter Ward and Don Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, are in the vanguard of the new field of astrobiology. Combining their knowledge of the evolution of life on our planet with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, the authors tell the awe-inspiring story of the second half of Earth's life. The process of planetary evolution will essentially reverse itself; life as we know it will subside until only the simplest forms remain. The oceans will evaporate, and as the sun slowly expands, Earth itself will eventually meet a fiery end.
Author : Louis Figuier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3PPY
Author : Guillaume Louis FIGUIER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023471905
Author : Anya Bernstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691185958
A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortality As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very limits of the human. The Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of characters, from the owners of a small cryonics outfit to scientists inaugurating the field of biogerontology, from grassroots neurotech enthusiasts to believers in the Cosmist ideas of the Russian Orthodox thinker Nikolai Fedorov. Bernstein puts their debates and polemics in the context of a long history of immortalist thought in Russia, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. If aging is a curable disease, do we have a moral obligation to end the suffering it causes? Could immortality be the foundation of a truly liberated utopian society extending beyond the confines of the earth—something that Russians, historically, have pondered more than most? If life without end requires radical genetic modification or separating consciousness from our biological selves, how does that affect what it means to be human? As vividly written as any novel, The Future of Immortality is a fascinating account of techno-scientific and religious futurism—and the ways in which it hopes to transform our very being.
Author : Heinrich Zschokke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Death
ISBN : PRNC:32101067337681
Author : Anne Case,Angus Deaton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217062
A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.
Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,Linda H. Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317690825
Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking and acting towards the future involves efforts of imagination that are linked to our sense of being in the world and the ecological pressures we experience. The three key ideas of this book – ecologies, ontologies and mythologies – help us understand the ways people in many different societies attempt to predict and shape their futures. Each chapter places a different emphasis on the linked domains of environmental change, embodied experience, myth and fantasy, politics, technology and intellectual reflection, in relation to imagined futures. The diverse geographic scope of the chapters includes rural Nepal, the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Sweden, coastal Scotland, North America, and remote, rural and urban Australia. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, psychology and politics.
Author : Louis Figuier
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1406887722
Figuier (1819-94) was a French scientist and writer who held the position of Professor of Chemistry at universities in Montpellier and Paris. Aged 30 he abandoned his research to devote himself to writing on popular science subjects. He wrote scientific articles for La Presse and edited and published a yearbook from 1857 to 1894 - L'Annee scientificque et industrielle (or Expose annuel des travaux) - in which he compiled an inventory of the scientific discoveries of the year, and which was continued after his death until 1914. He was also the author of numerous sucessful works, notably La terre avant le deluge (1863), translated into English as World Before the Deluge (1872). In this work (Les Bonheurs d'Outre-Tombe in the original French) Figuier based his theories of the future life on no religion, but on science and reason, putting forward the idea that those who have practiced righteousness and cultivated their minds during their life on earth will go on to become the inhabitants of an interplanetary "heaven." Reprinted from the Macmillan new edition of 1904 and illustrated with 10 plates.
