David Roden

Posthuman Life (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophy at the Edge of the Human

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Posthuman Life develops a critical metaphysics of posthuman succession and argues that only a truly speculative posthumanism can support an ethics that meets the challenge of the transformative potential of technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317592310
• Artikelnr.: 41781610

Autorenporträt

David Roden is Lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University, UK. His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound, and posthumanism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Churchland's Centipede 1. Humanism, Transhumanism and
Posthumanism 2. A Defence of Pre-Critical Posthumanism 3. The Edge of the
Human 4. Weird Tales: Anthropologically Unbounded Posthumanism 5. The
Disconnection Thesis 6. Functional Autonomy and Assemblage Theory 7. New
Substantivism: A Theory of Technology 8. The Ethics of Becoming Posthuman.
Index