Death and anti-death: two hundred years after Kant, fifty years after Turing

Abstract

This anthology discusses a number of interdisciplinary cultural, psychological, metaphysical, and moral issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and anti-death. Most of the 400-plus pages consists of contributions unique to this volume. The anthology also contains an Introduction and an Index—as well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents. Although of interest to the general reader, the anthology functions well as a textbook for university courses in culture studies, death-related controversies, ethics, futuristics, humanities, interdisciplinary studies, life extension issues, metaphysics, and psychology.