目次

1. Moksha: On the Hindu Quest for Immortality Sudhir Kakar.- 2. Threshold-Images between Life and Death in Western Literature and Film Gunter Blamberger.- 3. Illusions of Immortality Jonardon Ganeri.- 4. The quest for immortality as a technical problem. The idea of Cybergnosis and the visions of posthumanism Oliver Kruger.- 5. From biological to moral immortality: The transformation of the working class hero in communism Anja Kirsch.- 6. Images of Death and the Afterlife in India Naman Ahuja.- 7. Dream, Death and Death within a Dream Arindam Chakrabarti.- 8. The Afterworld as a Site of Punishment. Imagining Hell in European Literature Friedrich Vollhardt.- 9. The Afterlife of the Dead in this World: Ghosts, Art, and Poetry in German Modernism Georg Braungart.- 10. “Death-x-pulse”: A Hermeneutics for Near-Death-Experiences Jens Schlieter.- 11. Paths to Nirvana? Hunger as Practice of Suicide Thomas Macho.- 12. Afterlife and Fertility in Varanasi Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar.