Our Posthuman Past: Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Ethical Futures

By David Edward Rose

Technological advances have a direct effect on the human being's material existence and its self-understanding. The monograph proposes that the self is an artificial object and shows that the Enlightenment's self-understanding of an intentional agent is, due to specific technologies, undergoing a fundamental transformation. The main claim is that a new understanding of the "subject" is required to avoid unfreedom in the territorialization of the digital world and its information.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3796540104
• ISBN13: 9783796540103
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.