Quand Les Centenaires Seront Jeunes

Descriere: English summary: Young and in good health-at 100, 150, and even 200 years of age-as the pace of history keeps accelerating, what we envision of our future promises both the best and the worst. The Earth may soon be uninhabitable, or Man may be destined to become "almost" immortal, as our life expectancy has increased tremendously over the last century. Could this progress be heralding a biological revolution ?Historian of the imaginary Lucian Boia has penned numerous works (published in English by Reaktion Books) exploring the ideas and mythologies that have marked humanity's development. French description: Jeunes et en bonne sante: a cent ans, a cent cinquante, a deux cents ans... L'histoire s'accelere et l'imaginaire de l'avenir promet a la fois le meilleur et le pire. Demain la Terre sera invivable (le rechauffement global) ou verra par contre l'epanouissement biologique de l'homme, destine a devenir presque immortel. Un arsenal scientifique et technologique impressionnant est mis au service d'un projet qui hante l'humanite depuis l'Antiquite et qui s'est deja exprime par un riche eventail de solutions. En Chine, les taoistes misaient sur les vertus d'une bonne respiration et d'une forte concentration mentale. Les Irlandais pariaient plutot sur les iles lointaines ou la mort et la vieillesse etaient inconnues. La fontaine de jouvence a ete intensement recherchee pendant des siecles. A la Renaissance, l'Italien Cornaro recommandait un regime alimentaire proche de la famine, tandis que pour les contemporains de Louis XIV rien ne valait mieux qu'une bonne purgation de temps en temps. Pour Metchnikoff, vers 1900, le remede universel etait le yaourt bulgare le docteur Voronoff, en revanche, valorisait les testicules de chimpanze. De nos jours, les remedes et les strategies se sont multiplies: salade cretoise ou DHEA, clonage ou congelation... Reste le fait que l'esperance de vie et la longevite se sont accrues spectaculairement durant le siecle dernier. Une revolution biologique en perspective?On doit deja a Lucian Boia, historien de l'imaginaire, une serie d'investigations sur les idees et les mythologies qui ont marque l'evolution de l'humanite (aux Belles Lettres, Pour une histoire de l'imaginaire, Mythologie scientifique du communisme, Le Mythe de la democratie, La Roumanie un pays aux frontieres de l'Europe et L'Homme face au climat).

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Autori: Lucian Boia (Author) | Editura: ARIZONA CTR FOR MEDIEVAL & REN | Anul aparitiei: 2006 | ISBN: 9782251442945 | Categorie: Sociology

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