Humanism and its discontents: the rise of transhumanism and posthumanism / Paul Jorion, editor.
Jorion, Paul, editor.
2022
B105.H8
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Humanism and its discontents: the rise of transhumanism and posthumanism / Paul Jorion, editor.
ISBN
9783030670047 (electronic bk.)
303067004X (electronic bk.)
3030670031
9783030670030
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7 doi
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B105.H8
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144
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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.
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HUMANISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS.
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Introduction: Humanism and its Discontents - The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism, Paul Jorion
I. Humanism on the wane
Strong Artificial Intelligence and theological anthropology: one problem, two solutions, Marius Dorobantu
II. Complement and supplements
On Prosthetic Existence: what differentiates deconstruction from transhumanism and posthumanism, Susanna Lindberg
III. Boundaries and frontiers
Discourse between Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Paul Jorion on Nietzsche, Fascism and Moving Beyond Humanism: From Friedrich Nietzsche to Stefan Sorgner: the short path leading from superhumanism to metahumanism, Paul Jorion
Dignity, Personhood, and the Sacred, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Truth? Still breathing!, Paul Jorion
Enlightenment, Truths, and the Sciences, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
When skin and technology intertwine, Helene Jeannin
IV. The Enlightenment recovered
On Max Mores extropianism, Salome Bour
Transhumanism and Advanced Capitalism: elitist logics and dangerous implications, Alexander Thomas
V. The cunning of Reason
Posthumanism, transhumanism, superhumanism and metahumanism from an adaptive standpoint, Paul Jorion,
Ethics and Complexity: Why standard ethical frameworks cannot cope with socio-technological change, Clement Vidal & Francis Heylighen.

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