Human Being @ Risk Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Coeckelbergh, Mark (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 12
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Phenomenology.; Philosophy of Man.; Philosophy of Technology.

Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability
•  Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge
• Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability
• Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability
• Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability
• Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology
• Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future
• Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age
• Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction
• Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability
• Conclusion.