From Humanism to Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism?

Author:   Irina Deretić ,  Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   8
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9783631662588


Pages:   379
Publication Date:   20 December 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Irina Deretić ,  Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9783631662588


ISBN 10:   3631662580
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   20 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Irina Deretić/Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Introduction – Irina Deretić: On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras – Rafael Ferber: Plato’s «Side Suns»: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the «Good» in the Philebus (65a1–5) – Christos Y. Panayides: Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology – Pauliina Remes: «For Itself and from Nothing»: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood – Hans Otto Seitschek: Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism – Ivan Vuković: Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity – Drago Đurić: Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics – Una Popović: Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being – Nenad Cekić: Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism? – Evanghelos Moutsopoulos: Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today? – Boris Bratina: Other or The Other? – Mikhail Epstein: Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology – Regine Kather: Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values – Marija Bogdanović: Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics – Karen Gloy: Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation – Evangelos D. Protopapadakis: Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe – J. Hendrik Heinrichs: Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age? – Mirjana Pavlović: The «Literature of Humanity»: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman – Biljana Dojčinović: Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective – Marina Milivojević-Mađarev: The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane – Evi D. Sampanikou: Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings – Predrag Milidrag: Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy – Yvonne Förster: The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art – Goran Gocić: One Genealogy of De-centring – Jaime del Val: Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism – Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically.

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Irina Deretić is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is head of the project «History of Serbian Philosophy», supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, director and co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network and Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET).

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