Illusions Of Immortality

Author : David Giles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137096500
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illusions of Immortality written by David Giles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives people to crave fame and celebrity? How does fame affect people psychologically? These issues are frequently discussed by the media but up till now psychologists have shied away from an academic away from an academic investigation of the phenomenon of fame. In this lively, eclectic book David Giles examines fame and celebrity from a variety of perspectives. He argues that fame should be seen as a process rather than a state of being, and that 'celebrity' has largely emerged through the technological developments of the last 150 years. Part of our problem in dealing with celebrities, and the problem celebrities have dealing with the public, is that the social conditions produced by the explosion in mass communications have irrevocably altered the way we live. However we know little about many of the phenomena these conditions have produced - such as the 'parasocial interaction' between television viewers and media characters, and the quasi-religious activity of 'fans'. Perhaps the biggest single dilemma for celebrities is the fact that the vehicle that creates fame for them - the media - is also their tormentor. To address these questions, David Giles draws on research from psychology, sociology, media and communications studies, history and anthropology - as well as his own experiences as a music journalist in the 1980s. He argues that the history of fame is inextricably linked to the emergence of the individual self as a central theme of Western culture, and considers how the desire for authenticity, as well as individual privacy, have created anxieties for celebrities which are best understood in their historical and cultural context.

Author : Corliss Lamont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258088354
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Immortality written by Corliss Lamont and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Corliss Lamont
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780804463775
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Immortality written by Corliss Lamont and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1990 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the case for human mortality--the finality of death. But, Lamont argues, the illusion of immortality is an affirmative vision, not a negative one.

Author : Elaine Kasket
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472141903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Ghosts in the Machine written by Elaine Kasket and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As charming and touching as it is astute and insightful' Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink 'This a very useful book, even perhaps for people who have never been near a computer in their lives' Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph Seen any ghosts on your smartphone lately? As we're compelled to capture, store and share more and more of our personal information, there's something we often forget. All that data doesn't just disappear when our physical bodies shuffle off this mortal coil. If the concept of remaining socially active after you're no longer breathing sounds crazy, you might want to get used to the idea. Digital afterlives are a natural consequence of the information age, a reality that barely anyone has prepared for - and that 'anyone' probably includes you. In All the Ghosts in the Machine, psychologist Elaine Kasket sounds a clarion call to everyone who's never thought about death in the digital age. When someone's hyperconnected, hyperpersonal digital footprint is transformed into their lasting legacy, she asks, who is helped, who is hurt, and who's in charge? And why is now such a critical moment to take our heads out of the sand? Weaving together personal, moving true stories and scientific research, All the Ghosts in the Machine takes you on a fascinating tour through the valley of the shadow of digital death. In the process, it will transform how you think about your life and your legacy, in a time when our technologies are tantalising us with fantasies of immortality.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of an Illusion written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : ERNEST. BECKER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788164269
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Denial of Death written by ERNEST. BECKER and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250309018
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Or What You Will written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won't live forever, any more than any human does. And he's trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he's got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Robert Geis
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761852662
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Ever After written by Robert Geis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Ever After is not a mass media style 'general readership' book on immortality; rather, it is an argument against a current school —- neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Without exposing the equation's weaknesses, the question of immortality, Geis argues, is moot. Part I identifies many epistemic and scientific grounds for a real world outside consciousness and self-refutational flaws in quantum physics. It employs the phenomenological method to situate 'consciousness' and 'other' in their relations. Part II sets forth why consciousness cannot be electrical in origin, and then how partibility and subjectivity, in tandem with the power of conceptualization, evince reasons for accepting immortal consciousness as a condition of all human awareness. A discussion of why pharmacologic explanations for the OBE and NDE are wanting, plus neurologic arguments for memory's non-localizability, and how animal sentience adds to philosophic conviction coordinate with Scripture on animal existence beyond the grave, concludes the argument.

Author : Corliss LAMONT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Immortality. (Second Edition.). written by Corliss LAMONT and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maggie Shayne
Publisher : Oliver-Heber books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternity written by Maggie Shayne and published by Oliver-Heber books. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rich, sensual, bewitching adventure of good vs. evil with love as the prize.” ~Publisher’s Weekly on ETERNITY WINNER: RT Book Reviews: Reviewers Choice Award WINNER: Reviewer's Listserv: Best Paranormal Romance Award WINNER: New Jersey Romance Writers: Golden Leaf Award One of BN.com's "Top 12 Reads of the Year" 300 years ago, Raven St. James was hanged for witchcraft. But she revives among the dead to find herself alive. She is an Immortal High Witch, one of the light. A note from her mother warns that there are others, those of the Dark, who preserve their own lives by taking the hearts of those like her. Duncan Wallace’s forbidden love for the secretive lass costs him his life. 300 years later, he loves her again, tormented by hazy memories of a past that can’t be real. She tells him of another lifetime, claims to be immortal. Though he knows she’s deluded, he can’t stay away. And the Dark Witch after her heart is far closer than either of them know. If you liked OUTLANDER, or HIGHLANDER, you will LOVE this series. Don’t miss Book 2, INFINITY or Book 3, DESTINY. “A hauntingly beautiful story of a love that endures through time itself.” ~New York Times Bestselling Author, Kay Hooper “This captivating story of a love that reaches across the centuries, becomes as immortal as the lover’s themselves, resonates with timeless passion, powerful magic, and haunting heartbreak.” ~BN.com’s official review