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Staying Alive
The Varieties of Immortality
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2009
Summary
Staying Alive explores the desire to live forever, which manifests itself in many forms and forums. Many throughout history have measured their self worth by the metric of how they will stay alive: one wants fame, another needs children. One wants to leave behind a personalized legacy, another wants to leave behind the world and enjoy the bliss of heaven. The author's self-expressed 'aim has been, simply, to write a readable book that will afford the reader an increased sensitivity to the many ways the desire for immortality has shaped history, philosophy, art, and literature.' The thought that this analysis of human longing and culture provokes transcends any one way of approaching these disciplines. It searches for, and connects, deeply personal pursuits with greater collective trends.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4758-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4759-5
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
147
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Chapter One: Death No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two: Love No access Pages 13 - 28
Chapter Three: Fame No access Pages 29 - 44
Chapter Four: Creativity and Legacy No access Pages 45 - 58
Chapter Five: Spiritual Immortality: Personal Immortality 1 No access Pages 59 - 78
Chapter Six: Earthly Immortality: Personal Immortality 2 No access Pages 79 - 96
Chapter Seven: Merging with the Enduring No access Pages 97 - 116
