Sex and the Posthuman Condition

This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots.

List of contents

Contents 1. After the Singularity: the Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman 2. Sexbots on the Rise 3. Three Literary Paradigms: Pygmalion, The Sandman, and The Future Eve 4. Promethean Shame and the Engineering of Love 5. The Rehabilitation of the Human Body: Lawrence and Houellebecq 6. The Marquis de Sade on Happiness, Nature and Liberty 7. Synthetik Love Lasts Forever 8. Kissengers and Surrogates Bibliography

About the author

Michael Hauskeller is an Associate Professor at, and Head of, the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published more than a dozen philosophical books including Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life (2007) and Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (2013), and more than 80 research papers.

Report

"Hauskeller's new volume focuses on the posthumanist use-current and prospective-of technologies to improve or otherwise control love life. ... the book brings up issues whose importance to the immediate present signal how pivotal are the more perennial underlying philosophical problems. ... Readers with an interest in the health of the present world should read this very accessible book. Everyone from philosophers to industrialists and average readers could benefit." (Lantz Fleming Miller, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 22, 2016)

Product details

• Authors: M Hauskeller, M. Hauskeller, Michael Hauskeller
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9781137393494
• ISBN: 978-1-137-39349-4
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 223 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; C, Gender Studies, Sociology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social Philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Philosophy and science, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy