The Proactionary Imperative
A Foundation for Transhumanism
Authors: Fuller, S., Lipinska, V., Lipi?ska, Veronika
Free Preview- Third book in a trilogy by world-renowned intellectual Steve Fuller exploring 'Humanity 2.0'
- Author Steve Fuller is a leading international voice in transhumanism debates and internationally renowned scholar with a platform beyond academia
- The first book to set out the intellectual basis for transhumanism – the 'proactionary' approach
- Argues that political debate will move beyond 'left' and 'right' to a new battleground informed by 'proactionary' vs 'precautionary' principles
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- About this book
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The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.
- About the authors
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Author Steve Fuller: Steve Fuller is Augustus Comte Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.He is author of eighteen books including Humanity 2.0: What It Means to be Human Past, Present and Future, Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism, Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, The Intellectualand Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
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"The book's foremost strength is its willingness to address the challenging social justice issues which those on the libertarian side of the transhumanist movement might otherwise overlook. Also greatly commendable is the varied array of material the authors summon to make their case. Accordingly, anyone who identifies with the need for future collectivist and democratic (as opposed to the typical market-driven) strategies for human enhancement, will undoubtedly find this text a well-informed 21st century starting point." - Sociological Imagination
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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Precautionary and Proactionary as the Twenty-first-century’s Defining Ideological Polarity
Pages 12-43
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Proactionary Theology: Discovering the Art of God-Playing
Pages 44-61
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Proactionary Biology: Recovering the Science of Eugenics
Pages 62-98
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A Legal and Political Framework for the Proactionary Principle
Pages 99-128
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Proactionary Imperative
- Book Subtitle
- A Foundation for Transhumanism
- Authors
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- S. Fuller
- V. Lipinska
- Veronika Lipi?ska
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-30292-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137302922
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-30297-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-43309-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 153
- Topics
