Our Posthuman Past Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Ethical Futures

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Préface

The digital self: freedom or unfreedom?

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Edward Rose, David Rose
• Edition: Schwabe Verlag Basel
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 09.06.2021
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie
• EAN: 9783796540103
• ISBN: 978-3-7965-4010-3
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Dimensions (emballage): 15,9 x 2 x 22,3 cm
• Poids (emballage): 466 g
• Thème: Posthuman Studies (PHST) > 4; Posthuman Studies > 4
• Catégories: 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