03539nam 2200613Ia 450 991043833350332120200520144314.01-299-40837-094-007-6025-610.1007/978-94-007-6025-7(CKB)2550000001018217(EBL)1106138(OCoLC)828627751(SSID)ssj0000879058(PQKBManifestationID)11486470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000879058(PQKBWorkID)10837634(PQKB)11357183(DE-He213)978-94-007-6025-7(MiAaPQ)EBC1106138(PPN)168342189(EXLCZ)99255000000101821720130217d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHuman being @ risk enhancement, technology, and the evaluation of vulnerability transformations /by Mark Coeckelbergh1st ed. 2013.Dordrecht Springer20131 online resource (225 p.)Philosophy of engineering and technology,1879-7202 ;12Description based upon print version of record.94-007-9918-7 94-007-6024-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,1879-7210 ;12PhenomenologyTechnologyPhilosophyPhenomenology.TechnologyPhilosophy.303.48301601Coeckelbergh Mark790229MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438333503321Human Being @ Risk2503346UNINA