@article{1444443,
      recid = {1444443},
      author = {Jorion, Paul,},
      title = {Humanism and its discontents: the rise of transhumanism  and posthumanism /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2022},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book explains that while posthumanism rose in  opposition to the biblical contention that Man was created  in the image of God, transhumanism ascertained the  complementary view that Man has been assigned dominion over  all creatures, further exploring a path that had been  opened up by the Enlightenments notion of human  perfectibility. It explains also how posthumanism and  transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a  broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight  against human extinction which may involve trespassing the  boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or  dematerialization of the Self and colonisation of distant  planets and stars. Two authors debate about truth and  reason in todays world, the notion of personhood and the  legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current  varieties of anti-humanism. Paul Jorion, Ph.D. is Associate  Professor at the Universite Catholique de Lille, France. He  trained as an anthropologist, sociologist and  psychoanalyst. He taught at Cambridge University, UK, was a  UCI Regents Lecturer and a member of the UCLA, USA, Human  Complex Systems. He played a pioneering role in AI (British  Telecoms Connex project) and in developing financial  algorithms.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1444443},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7},
}