{"product_id":"the-immortalization-commission-the-strange-quest-to-cheat-death","title":"The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gray, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 26-01-2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 62240\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAt 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThese 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating age, time and death'\u003cbr\u003e\nBoyd Tonkin, Independent\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Elegant ... He is on to something important regarding the delusion that science consists of indefinite progress'\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'One of the most important and insightful polemicists currently writing in English... humanism's most vocal critic'\u003cbr\u003e\nFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Gray is an engaging writer, an entertaining historian and a controversialist whose opinions can never be taken for granted'\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Gray has 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 False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia and Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. His selected writings, Gray's Anatomy, was published in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141041889\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66562740879664,"sku":"Trans_9780141041889","price":988.44,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/918MDQKnGUL.jpg?v=1776482424","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-immortalization-commission-the-strange-quest-to-cheat-death","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}