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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Sharon, Tamar (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 14
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.             .