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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