The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing
the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors
of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate
films, art and popular culture. On the Human Condition is an
invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the
human stands today. Given the damage human beings have inflicted on
each other and their environment throughout history, should we
embrace humanism or try and overcome it? Dominique Janicaud
explores these urgent questions and more. He argues that whilst we
need to avoid apocalyptic talk of a post human condition, as
embodied in technology such as cloning, we should neither fall back
on a conservative humanism nor become technophobic. Drawing on
illuminating examples such as genetic engineering, the novel
Frankenstein, the legendary debate between Sartre and Heidegger
over humanism, and the work of Primo Levi, Domnique Janicaud also
explores the role of fantasy in understanding the human condition
and asks where the line lies between the human, inhuman and the
superhuman.
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