A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-
first century From a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed fifteen people and injured …

What is death? How can its occurrence be detected? These questions are interrelated, as
we can reliably detect death only if we know what it is. The standard view is that dying …

Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-
first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent …

Death and Finitude offers an examination and defense of a pragmatic transcendental
anthropology applicable to the concepts of limit, finitude, and mortality that are constitutive of …

" The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprun (1923-)
is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the …

What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with
unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the …

Some philosophers think that life is worth living not merely because of the goods and the
bads within it, but also because life itself is good. I explain how this idea can be formalized …

Memento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term
“memento mori” is a Latin injunction that means “remember mortality,” or more …

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living.
It injects new arguments and insights into the debate about the desirability of immortality …

Scientific immortalism is an ideology that argues in favor of technologically facilitated
immortality. According to proponents of scientific immortalism immortality will be achieved …