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Stardust to stardust : reflections on living and dying

Title
Stardust to stardust : reflections on living and dying / Erik Olin Wright.
Author
Wright, Erik Olin
Publication
  • Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Description
xvi, 259 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes us along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the big questions about human mortality. Human life is a wild, extraordinary phenomenon: elements are brewed in the center of stars and exploding supernova, spewed across the universe; they eventually clumped into a minor planet around a modest star; then after some billions of years this "stardust" became complex molecules with self-replicating capacities that we call life. More billions of years pass and these self-replicating molecules join together into more complex forms, evolve into organisms which gain awareness and then consciousness, and finally, eventually, consciousness of their consciousness. Stardust turned into conscious living matter aware of its own existence. And with that comes consciousness of mortality....That I, as a conscious being will cease to exist pales in significance to the fact that I exist at all. I don't find that this robs my existence of meaning; it's what makes infusing life with meaning possible.
Subject
  • Wright, Erik Olin
  • Sociologists > Biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
  • Sociologists
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Call Number
JFD 20-3746
ISBN
  • 9781642591583
  • 1642591580
  • 9781642592269 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1184766436
Author
Wright, Erik Olin, author.
Title
Stardust to stardust : reflections on living and dying / Erik Olin Wright.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFD 20-3746
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