1st Edition
Postmortal Society Towards a Sociology of Immortality
Introduction: Towards a Postmortal Society - Paving the Pathway for a Sociology of Immortality
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
1. How the Dead Survive - Ancestors, Immortality, Memory
Tony Walter
2. The Future of Death and the Four Pathways to Immortality
Guy Brown
3. Individualised Immortality in Liquid-Modern Times - Teasing Out the Topic of Symbolic Immortality in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
4. Terror Management Theory - Surviving the Awareness of Death One Way or Another
Uri Lifshin, Peter J. Helm and Jeff Greenberg
5. The Immortalisation of Celebrities
David Giles
6. The Contemporary Imaginary of Work - Symbolic Immortality within the Postmodern Corporate Discourse
Adriana Teodorescu
7. The Neural Identity - Strategies of Immortality in Contemporary Western Culture
Gianfranco Pecchinenda
8. Toward Post-Human - The Dream of Never-Ending Life
Nunzia Bonifati
9. Digital Immortality or Digital Death? - Contemplating Digital End of Life Planning
Carla J. Sofka, Allison Gibson and Danielle R. Silberman
10. The Virtual Concept of Death
William Sims Bainbridge
11. The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures
Michael C. Kearl
Biography
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and Beyond Bauman: Creative Excursions and Critical Engagements, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; and Imaginative Methodologies: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research (all available from Routledge).
