The immortalization commission: science and the strange quest to cheat death
Europe (histoire), Politique et gouvernement, Phénomènes paranormaux, Mort et deuil
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
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 Communism - seemed to suggest that our fate was… now in our own hands. Gray investigates the belief that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, and the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a non-religious form of life after death. c2011.