Human Being @ Risk: Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations

by Mark Coeckelbergh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400799187
• ISBN13: 9789400799189
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"