Prosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life Volume 71

by Adam R Rosenthal

Examining the links between today's ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortality

From Plato's notion of generation to Derrida's concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, Adam Rosenthal's Prosthetic Immortalities shows how the dream of indefinite life has always been a technological one: a matter of prosthesis. He argues that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517916577
• ISBN13: 9781517916572
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"