Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology The Case for Mediated Posthumanism /

• Main Author: Sharon, Tamar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 14
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Anthropology.; Philosophy of Technology.; Philosophy of Science.

New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and argues that they do not adequately...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. A Cartography of the Posthuman
• Chapter 3. The Human Enhancement Debate: For, Against and from Human Nature
• Chapter 4. Towards a Non-Humanist Posthumanism: The Originary Prostheticity of Radical and Methodological Posthumanism
• Chapter 5. From Molar to Molecular Bodies: Posthumanist Frameworks in Contemporary Biology
• Chapter 6. Posthuman Subjectivity: Beyond Modern Metaphysics
• Chapter 7. Technologically Produced Nature: Nature Beyond Schizophrenia and Paranoia
• Chapter 8. New Modes of Ethical Selfhood: Geneticization and Genetically Responsible Subjectivity
• Chapter 9. Conclusion.             .