Human nature in an age of biotechnology [electronic resource] : the case for mediated posthumanism / Tamar Sharon.
Sharon, Tamar, 1975- author.
2014
TP248.2 .S45 2013eb
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Title Human nature in an age of biotechnology [electronic resource] : the case for mediated posthumanism / Tamar Sharon.
Author Sharon, Tamar, 1975- author.
ISBN 9789400775541 electronic book
9400775547 electronic book
9789400775534
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7554-1
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-94-007-7554-1 doi
Call Number TP248.2 .S45 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 660.601
Summary 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. It offers a comprehensive mapping of posthumanist discourse divided into four broad approaches, two of them humanist-based approaches: dystopic and liberal posthumanism, and two non-humanist approaches: radical and methodological posthumanism. The author compares and contrasts these models through 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. Building on the contributions and limitations of radical and methodological posthumanism, the author develops a novel perspective, mediated posthumanism, that brings together insights into the philosophy of technology, the sociology of biomedicine, and Michel Foucault's work on ethical subject constitution. In this framework, technology is neither a neutral tool nor a force that alienates humanity from itself, but something that is always already part of the experience of being human, and subjectivity is viewed as an emergent property that is constantly being shaped and transformed by its engagements with biotechnologies. Mediated posthumanism becomes a tool for identifying novel ethical modes of human experience that are richer and more multifaceted than allowed by current posthumanist perspectives. This is an essential reading for students and scholars working on ethics and technology, philosophy of technology, poststructuralism, technology and the body, and medical ethics.
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Series Philosophy of engineering and technology ; 14.
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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.

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