Description:
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, and tackles related issues such as boredom, personal identity, technological progress, and the meaning of life.
Review Quotes:
"This book is clear, careful, and sometimes personal and especially poignant. It is essential reading for scholars interested in death and immortality, and it is accessible enough to use in undergraduate teaching. Buben is well-versed in the analytic philosophical literature on death and immortality as well as in the existentialist tradition, and his writing is accessible even for readers without a background in continental philosophy. I highly recommend this book."
Taylor Cyr, Samford University, USA
"[Buben has] offered an impeccable treatment of the reflection conducted by outstanding existentialists on the desirability of immortality. He [has] attempted to find a synergy between the analytic tradition and the continental one, a synergy which can help us deal with the current interest of science and technology in the achievement of immortality. Finally, he [uses] a rigorous methodology, which the reader can immediately appreciate as soon as she picks up the book."
Roberto Di Ceglie in Human Studies