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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Future of immortality and other essays for a nuclear age. New York : Basic Books, c1987 (OCoLC)568397781 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Jay Lifton |
| ISBN: | 0465025978 : 9780465025978 |
| OCLC Number: | 14414112 |
| Description: | x, 305 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The future of immortality -- Part I : In extremis -- Is Hiroshima our text? -- Vietnam - beyond atrocity -- The postwar war -- Medicalized killing in Auschwitz -- "Decent" people and evil projects -- The inability to mourn : Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich -- Part II : Imagining the end -- The new psychology of human survival -- The nuclear illusion -- Beyond the nuclear end -- Prophetic survivors -- Part III : Reflections -- Dreaming well : frontiers of form -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain -- Cults : religious totalism and civil liberties -- Suicide : the quest for a future -- The concept of the survivor -- The survivor as creator -- Art and the imagery of extinction -- Toward a nuclear age ethos. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Jay Lifton. |
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