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Record Nr.

UNINA9910742495503321

Autore

Love Jeff

Titolo

Revolutionary bio-politics from Fedorov to Mao / / by Jeff Love, Michael Meng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

981-9947-45-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 pages)

Disciplina

129

Soggetti

Asia - Politics and government

Science - History

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

Asian Politics

History of Science

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Becoming God -- Chapter 2: Recuperation of the Finite -- Chapter 3: Reconciliation—the Great Harmony -- Epilogue: Harmony with Suffering?

Sommario/riassunto

This book confronts the question of immortality: Is human life without immortality tolerable? It does so by exploring three attitudes to immortality expressed in the context of three revolutions, the Soviet, the Nazi and the Communist revolution in China. The book begins with an account of the radical Russian tradition of immortalism that culminates in the thought of Nikolai Fedorov (1829-1903), then contrasting this account with the equally radical finitism of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Both these strands are then developed in the context of modern Chinese philosophical thinking about technology and the creation of a harmonious relation to nature that reflects in turn a harmonious relation to mortality, one that eschews the radicality of both Fedorov and Heidegger by discerning a “middle way.”.