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Human Being @ Risk : Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations / by Mark Coeckelbergh
(Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. ISSN:18797210 ; 12)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2013
Edition	1st ed. 2013.
Authors	*Coeckelbergh, Mark author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00166726		Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks (電子ブック)	9789400760257

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XIV, 218 p : online resource
Notes	Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge -- Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability -- Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology -- Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future -- Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age -- Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction -- Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability -- Conclusion Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability, we create new vulnerabilities and thereby transform ourselves as much as we transform the world. Responding to the discussion about human enhancement and information technologies, the book then shows that this dynamic-relational approach has important implications for the evaluation of new technologies and their risks. It calls for a normative anthropology of vulnerability that does not ask which objective risks are acceptable, how we can become invulnerable, or which technologies threaten human nature, but which vulnerability transformations we want. To the extent that we can steer the growth of new technologies at all, this tragic and sometimes comic project should therefore be guided by what we want to become HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6025-7
Subjects	LCSH:Philosophy of mind LCSH:Self LCSH:Phenomenology LCSH:Technology—Philosophy LCSH:Ethics FREE:Philosophy of the Self FREE:Phenomenology FREE:Philosophy of Technology FREE:Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics
Classification	LCC:BD418-418.84 DC23:126
ID	8000012469
ISBN	9789400760257