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

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...

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Опубликовано в: :Springer eBooks
Главный автор: Sharon, Tamar (Автор)
Соавтор: SpringerLink (Online service)
Формат: Электронная книга
Язык:English
Публикация: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Серии:Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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Online-ссылка:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7554-1
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Оглавление:
  • 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.             .