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Human Being @ Risk - Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations (Hardcover, 2013 ed.) Loot Price: R5,346
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Human Being @ Risk - Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Mark...

Human Being @ Risk - Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

Mark Coeckelbergh

Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 12

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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. "

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 12
Release date: March 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Mark Coeckelbergh
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Edition: 2013 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-9400760240
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN: 9400760248
Barcode: 9789400760240

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