Our Posthuman Past

David Edward Rose

doi:10.24894/978-3-7965-4231-2

Summary

Technological advances directly affect the human being’s material existence and its self-understanding. The Enlightenment’s intentional agent is, due to specific technologies, undergoing a fundamental transformation. Yet, if the ideological basis of this understanding, the justness of social luck, is not rejected, then a new understanding of the "subject" which would avoid unfreedom in the territorialization of the digital world is made impossible. This book offers a novel Hegelian reading of the posthuman discipline in order to propose a new subjectivity.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7965-4010-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7965-4231-2
Publisher: Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 261
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
1. 1. Chorus: The Derridean AI No access
  2. 1. Be careful what you wish for No access
  3. 2. The theoretical landscape of posthuman studies No access
  4. 3. Humanism: the normative deficit No access
  5. 4. Humanism to posthumanism No access
  6. 5. The aims of the book No access
2. 1. Chorus: Ħal Saflieni No access
  2. 1. The dialectic of technology No access
  3. 2. The postmodern critique of the subject No access
  4. 3. The hermeneutical understanding of history No access
  5. 4. The normative theory of objective freedom No access
  6. 5. The new metaphor No access
1. 1. Chorus:€ Antigone and its public No access
  2. 1. Our posthuman past: Hegel and the many Greeks No access
  3. 2. The development of self-understandings: the superstitious, personal and moral wills No access
  4. 3. The corruption of the modern will No access
  5. 4. The posthuman problem No access
2. 1. Chorus: New Model Army No access
  2. 1. Justifications of property from Locke to Hegel No access
  3. 2. Symbolic capital: scarcity and debt No access
  4. 3. Distributed cognition, digital and intellectual property No access
  5. 4. The ideology protecting moral and social luck No access
  6. 5. The bifurcation, Hughes and the failure of redistribution No access
  7. 6. Beyond property No access
3. 1. Chorus: I am half Italian No access
  2. 1. The stakes No access
  3. 2. Reproductive technologies and the refusal of interference No access
  4. 3. Habermas and the sanctity of the autonomous individual No access
  5. 4. Existential risk No access
  6. 5. Bifurcation No access
4. 1. Chorus: Welcome to the future! No access
  2. 1. Future familiarity No access
  3. 2. Contemporary technological pressures No access
  4. 1. 3.1 Transformations in the ancient world (2100 BCE‍ –‍ 400 CE) No access
    2. 3.2 Transformations in the medieval and Renaissance world (1088‍ –‍ 1700 CE) No access
    3. 3.3 Transformations in the modern world (1700‍ –‍ 1980 CE) No access
  5. 4. Education as objective freedom No access
  6. 5. Bifurcation No access
1. 1. Chorus: Fascist Fitbits and Pavlovian smartwatches No access
  2. 1. What is the posthuman? No access
  3. 2. Bifurcation No access
  4. 3. The inalienable kernel No access
  5. 4. Braidotti and connectedness No access
  6. 5. A new, appropriate subjectivity No access
  7. 6. Present and future No access
  8. 7. Concluding postscript No access
Cited Texts No access Pages 245 - 254
Index of Names No access Pages 255 - 256
Index of Subjects No access Pages 257 - 261