{"product_id":"immortalization-commission","title":"Immortalization Commission","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gray's \u003ci\u003eThe Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death \u003c\/i\u003eraises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years, we turned to religion for our answers, but at the turn of the twentieth centuries ideas from evolution and politics seemed to suggest that our lives - and afterlives - were in our own hands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  These ideas would have both trivial and terrible effects, from the nightmares of H. G. Wells's science fiction and the wild, sweeping craze of séances to the murder of millions in the Stalinist terror. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating age, time and death' \u003cbr\u003e  Boyd Tonkin,\u003ci\u003e Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Elegant ... He is on to something important regarding the delusion that science consists of indefinite progress' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'One of the most important and insightful polemicists currently writing in English... humanism's most vocal critic' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Gray is an engaging writer, an entertaining historian and a controversialist whose opinions can never be taken for granted' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJohn Gray \u003c\/b\u003ehas been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books include \u003ci\u003eFalse Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStraw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals\u003c\/i\u003e. His selected writings, \u003ci\u003eGray's Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226941673816,"sku":"9780141041889","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141041889.jpg?v=1770706852","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/immortalization-commission","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}