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100 1 _aCoeckelbergh, Mark.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHuman Being @ Risk
_h[electronic resource] :
_bEnhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations /
_cby Mark Coeckelbergh.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXIV, 218 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aPhilosophy of Engineering and Technology,
_x1879-7202 ;
_v12
505 0 _aPart 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.
520 _aWhereas 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.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aPhenomenology.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xPhilosophy.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Man.
650 2 4 _aPhenomenology.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Technology.
650 2 4 _aEthics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
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830 0 _aPhilosophy of Engineering and Technology,
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