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Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: Technology, Utopianism and Eschatology; Imagined Technological Futures; Transitional and Transhumanist Visions; Part I: Technological Imaginations; Part II: Ethics and Politics of Envisioned Futures; Part III: Trans/posthumanism in Context; Conclusion; References; Part I Technological Imaginations; 1 What Does the Debate on (Post)human Futures Tell Us? Methodology of Hermeneutical Analysis and Vision Assessment ; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 The Debate on (Post)human Futures in the Light of the TA Experience
2.1 The Need for Orientation in the Field of Human Enhancement2.2 Impact orientation of technology assessment; 2.3 The Debate on (Post)human Futures-beyond the Scope of TA; 3 Visionary Futures as Social Constructs; 4 Toward Hermeneutical Futures Analysis; 5 What Does the Debate on Posthuman Futures Tell Us?; References; 2 Manifestations of the Posthuman in the Postsecular Imagination ; Have We Ever Been Human?; The Posthuman Condition, or Being Human Has Never Come Naturally; Have We Ever Been Modern?; The Crossed-Out God: The Paradoxes of Postsecular Society; Have We Ever Been Secular?
Posthumanism, Transcendence, and the SacredPostsecular Posthumanisms; Conclusion: Human, Nonhuman, and More-Than-Human; References; 3 Perfecting the Human: Posthuman Imaginaries and Technologies of Reason ; Imaginaries of High-Modernism; Fractures in the Frame of Development; Theorizing Posthumanism; Postmodern Posthumanism; References; 4 Heidegger on Techno-Posthumanism Revolt against Finitude, or Doing What Comes "Naturally"? ; Transcendent Man, a Film; Heidegger on Techno-Posthumanism; Preparing the Humans Needed to Take Command of the Planet
Naturalizing Heidegger: Could the Clearing Ever Occur Again, This Time in Super AI?A Note about Finitude ; References; Part II Ethics and Politics of Envisioned Futures; 5 Transhumanism Is Humanism, and Humanism Is Transhumanism ; 1 Transhumanism and Philosophical Anthropology; 2 Transhumanist Practices: Armament and Jewelry; 3 Philosophical Anthropology and Intergenerational Relationships; 4 Purposeful Replication of Humans, Transhumanist Reproduction: The Species-ethical Problem; 5 Extreme Transhumanism: Cyborgs and Other Rational Beings; 6 Conclusion; References
6 Three Transhumanist Types of (Post)Human Perfection 1 The Renaissance Human Ideal; 2 A Commonsense Account of the Human Good; 3 A Radical Pluralistic Account of the Human Good; Conclusion; References; 7 Reduced Heritage How Transhumanism Secularizes and Desecularizes Religious Visions ; Transhumanism and Religion; Vision Management; The Golden Age and the Sense of Possibility; Apocalyptics and Striving for Realization; Parusia's Delay and Reflective Vision Management; Conclusion: The Lack of Reflexivity; References; 8 The Cognitive and Practical Relevance of Technological Visions
2.1 The Need for Orientation in the Field of Human Enhancement2.2 Impact orientation of technology assessment; 2.3 The Debate on (Post)human Futures-beyond the Scope of TA; 3 Visionary Futures as Social Constructs; 4 Toward Hermeneutical Futures Analysis; 5 What Does the Debate on Posthuman Futures Tell Us?; References; 2 Manifestations of the Posthuman in the Postsecular Imagination ; Have We Ever Been Human?; The Posthuman Condition, or Being Human Has Never Come Naturally; Have We Ever Been Modern?; The Crossed-Out God: The Paradoxes of Postsecular Society; Have We Ever Been Secular?
Posthumanism, Transcendence, and the SacredPostsecular Posthumanisms; Conclusion: Human, Nonhuman, and More-Than-Human; References; 3 Perfecting the Human: Posthuman Imaginaries and Technologies of Reason ; Imaginaries of High-Modernism; Fractures in the Frame of Development; Theorizing Posthumanism; Postmodern Posthumanism; References; 4 Heidegger on Techno-Posthumanism Revolt against Finitude, or Doing What Comes "Naturally"? ; Transcendent Man, a Film; Heidegger on Techno-Posthumanism; Preparing the Humans Needed to Take Command of the Planet
Naturalizing Heidegger: Could the Clearing Ever Occur Again, This Time in Super AI?A Note about Finitude ; References; Part II Ethics and Politics of Envisioned Futures; 5 Transhumanism Is Humanism, and Humanism Is Transhumanism ; 1 Transhumanism and Philosophical Anthropology; 2 Transhumanist Practices: Armament and Jewelry; 3 Philosophical Anthropology and Intergenerational Relationships; 4 Purposeful Replication of Humans, Transhumanist Reproduction: The Species-ethical Problem; 5 Extreme Transhumanism: Cyborgs and Other Rational Beings; 6 Conclusion; References
6 Three Transhumanist Types of (Post)Human Perfection 1 The Renaissance Human Ideal; 2 A Commonsense Account of the Human Good; 3 A Radical Pluralistic Account of the Human Good; Conclusion; References; 7 Reduced Heritage How Transhumanism Secularizes and Desecularizes Religious Visions ; Transhumanism and Religion; Vision Management; The Golden Age and the Sense of Possibility; Apocalyptics and Striving for Realization; Parusia's Delay and Reflective Vision Management; Conclusion: The Lack of Reflexivity; References; 8 The Cognitive and Practical Relevance of Technological Visions