书目名称 | Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology | 副标题 | The Case for Mediate | 编辑 | Tamar Sharon | 视频video | | 概述 | Presents a comparison of models via an exploration of key issues, from human enhancement, to eugenics, and new configurations of biopower.Offers a new perspective on human-technology relations that ev | 丛书名称 | Philosophy of Engineering and Technology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 address the question of what it means to be human in an age of biotechnology. Not because they belong to rival political camps, but because they are grounded in a humanist ontology that presupposes a radical separation between human subjects and technological objects..The volume offers a comprehensive mapping of posthumanist discourse divided into four broad approaches—two humanist-based approaches: dystopic and liberal posthumanism, and two non-humanist approaches: radical and methodological posthumanism. The author compares and contrasts these models via an exploration of key issues, from human enhancement, to eugenics, to new configurations of biopower, questioning what role technology plays in defining the boundaries of the human, the subject and nature for each. .Building on the contributions and limitations of radical and methodological posthumanism, the author develops a novel pe | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | 关键词 | Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Biopolitics and Molecularization; Cyborg anthropology; Dystopic pos | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7554-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-024-0598-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-7554-1Series ISSN 1879-7202 Series E-ISSN 1879-7210 | issn_series | 1879-7202 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 |
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