Existentialism and the desirability of immortality. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adam Buben.
• Authors: Buben, Adam, 1977-
• Contents: Introduction: The Hope of Meaningful Immortality ; The Meaning of "Meaning"; The Current State of the Immortality Debate; The Meaninglessness of Mortal Life; Hope for Meaning; Existentialism, Death, and Meaningful Life 1. Early Arguments About the Desirability of Immortality; Socrates’ Ambivalence; Pascal’s Wager; Kant’s Postulates; Schopenhauer’s Pessimism 2. Kierkegaard on Repeatable Pleasures, Perpetual Projects, and Risk ; Boredom and Identity; The Importance of Repetition; Meaning Beyond Rotation; Immortality as a Thought Experiment; Risk and Value 3. The Dark Side of Desire: Nietzsche, Immortality, and the Roots of Transhumanism ; The Transhumanist Agenda and the Desirability of Immortality; Nietzsche on Life-Affirmation, Novelty, and Immortality; Eternal Recurrence and Immortality; Not Quite a Curmudgeon or a Transhumanist 4. Unamuno on Having the Strength to Long for Personal Immortality; What We Really Want; Death and Injustice; Running Afoul of Nietzsche; Giving Up on Oneself 5. Heidegger on Finitude and Value; The Higher Bar: God-like Immortality; Stages, Risk, and Urgency; Being-towards-death; Immortality and Inhumanity 6. Immortality Online: Reasons to Be Wary; What Gets Left Behind; An Imagined but Not So Far-Fetched Scenario; Duties to the Dead; Inhuman Resources; Facing Death; Appendix 7. Sartre and the Importance of Always Having an Exit ; Death and the Indeterminacy of Meaning; The Finitude of Immortal Life; "Hell Is Other People" and the Dangers of Necessary Immortality; Indefinite Life-Extension and Suicide 8. Camus and the Absurdist Case for Immortality; Meaninglessness and Absurdity; Two Types of Suicide; Freedom and Revolt; Imagining Sisyphus Happy 9. Grander Ambitions, Rekindled Interests, and Limited Memory in Beauvoir; Beauvoir Contra Sartre; A Curmudgeonly Tale?; Resources for Immortality Enthusiasts; Lingering Ambiguities; ; Conclusion: Disappointment and Death
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 142.78; Existentialism; Immortality
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000595932; 9781000595918; 9781003281085
• Related ISBNs: 9781032247977
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