Posthuman Bliss?: The Failed Promise of Transhumanism

by Susan B Levin

A tightly-argued and expansive examination of the pitfalls of "radical" bioenhancement that reacquaints us with what it means to live well.

Advocates of transhumanism, or "radical" enhancement, urge us to pursue the biotechnological heightening of select capacities-above all, cognitive ability-so far beyond any human limit that the beings with those capacities would exist on a higher ontological plane. For proponents of such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190051493
• ISBN13: 9780190051495
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"