Overview
Shows how transhumanism and posthumanism developed as a critique of humanism
Explains how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory
Sorgner and Jorion debate on truth, personhood, and Nietzsche's Superhuman
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Humanism on the Wane
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Complement and Supplements
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Boundaries and Frontiers
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The Enlightenment Recovered
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that ‘Man was created in the image of God’, transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that ‘Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures’, further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment’s notion of human perfectibility.
It explains also how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight against human extinction which may involve trespassing the boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or dematerialization of the Self and colonisation of distant planets and stars.
Two authors debate about truth and reason in today’s world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Paul Jorion, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, France. He trained as an anthropologist, sociologist and psychoanalyst. He taught at Cambridge University, UK, was a UCI Regents Lecturer and a member of the UCLA, USA, Human Complex Systems. He played a pioneering role in AI (British Telecom’s Connex project) and in developing financial algorithms.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humanism and its Discontents
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Editors: Paul Jorion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67003-0Published: 13 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67006-1Published: 14 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67004-7Published: 12 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 225
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy of Technology, Artificial Intelligence