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Our Posthuman Past
Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Ethical Futures

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Technological advances directly affect the human being's material existence and its self-understanding. The Enlightenment's intentional agent is, due to specific technologies, undergoing a fundamental transformation. Yet, if the ideological basis of this understanding, the justness of social luck, is not rejected, then a new understanding of the "subject" which would avoid unfreedom in the territorialization of the digital world is made impossible. This book offers a novel Hegelian reading of the posthuman discipline in order to propose a new subjectivity.

About the author

David Rose is Professor of Social Ethics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His major research interests concern cultural issues grounded in the history of ideas, particularly the writings of Hegel and Vico, and more generally in counter-enlightenment ethical thought.

Summary

Technological advances directly affect the human being’s material existence and its self-understanding. The Enlightenment’s intentional agent is, due to specific technologies, undergoing a fundamental transformation. Yet, if the ideological basis of this understanding, the justness of social luck, is not rejected, then a new understanding of the "subject" which would avoid unfreedom in the territorialization of the digital world is made impossible. This book offers a novel Hegelian reading of the posthuman discipline in order to propose a new subjectivity.

Foreword

The digital self: freedom or unfreedom?

Product details

Authors David Edward Rose, David Rose
Publisher Schwabe Verlag Basel
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 09.06.2021
Subject Humanities, art, music > Philosophy
 
EAN 9783796540103
ISBN 978-3-7965-4010-3
Pages 260
Dimensions (packing) 15.9 x 2 x 22.3 cm
Weight (packing) 466 g
 
Series Posthuman Studies (PHST) > 4
Posthuman Studies > 4
Subjects Philosophie, digital, Soziale und politische Philosophie, History, Technology, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Development, Future, Hegel, Agency, humanism, Ideology, Historicicm, Idealism, Posthumanism, Vico, Social Ethics, Tranhumanism, self-understanding, PROGRESS
 

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