Humanism and its Discontents

Zusatztext

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 Enlightenments 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 todays world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism.

Autorenportrait

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 Telecoms Connex project) and in developing financial algorithms.

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