Mark Coeckelbergh: Human Being @ Risk | Buch

Cover: 9789400760240 | Human Being @ Risk | Mark Coeckelbergh | Buch | xiv | Englisch | 2013

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Beschreibung

Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability, we create new vulnerabilities and thereby transform ourselves as much as we transform the world.
Responding to the discussion about human enhancement and information technologies, the book then shows that this dynamic-relational approach has important implications for the evaluation of new technologies and their risks. It calls for a normative anthropology of vulnerability that does not ask which objective risks are acceptable, how we can become invulnerable, or which technologies threaten human nature, but which vulnerability transformations we want. To the extent that we can steer the growth of new technologies at all, this tragic and sometimes comic project should therefore beguided by what we want to become.¿

Zusammenfassung

First book to argue that posthuman existence also implies new vulnerabilities

Integrates Risk Theory with Philosophical Anthropology

Offers an original ethical and political analysis of vulnerability in the information age?

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability.- Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge.- Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability.- Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability.- Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability.- Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology.- Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future.- Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age.- Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction.- Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability.- Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
Inhalt:	xiv 218 S.
ISBN-13:	9789400760240
ISBN-10:	9400760248
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Coeckelbergh, Mark
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Netherlands Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
Maße:	241 x 160 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Coeckelbergh
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.03.2013
Gewicht:	0,518 kg

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