عنوان

Redesigning Life :

(Number (ISBN

3035265445

(Number (ISBN

3035298238

(Number (ISBN

9783035265446

(Number (ISBN

9783035298239

Erroneous ISBN

2875742817

Erroneous ISBN

9782875742810

Title Proper

Redesigning Life :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

eugenics, biopolitics, and the challenge of the techno-human condition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[Brussels, Belgium] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Peter Lang AG,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Philosophy & politics ;

Volume Designation

27

Text of Note

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Enhanced Life -- Redesigning Life -- The Return of Eugenics -- The Liberal Eugenics -- Life needs to be Protected -- The New Eugenics and the End of Liberalism -- Chapter Two: Bare Life -- The Biopolitical Turn -- From Life Politics to a Politics of Life -- The Power to "Make Life" and "Let Die" -- Existence Without Life -- Sacred Life -- Form-Of-Life -- Chapter Three: Enframed Life -- Heidegger and Biotechnology -- The Grown and the Made -- Dasein and Life -- The Essence of Biotechnology -- Chapter Four: Natal Life -- Hannah Arendt and Biotechnology -- The Techno-Human Condition -- Natality Between Necessity and Freedom -- The Symbolic Reduction of the Event of Parturition -- The Prematurity of Natal Life -- Chapter Five: Prosthetic Life -- The Forgetting of Epimetheus -- Deconstructing the Anthropological Difference -- Epiphylogenetic Life -- Technology and Communicative Reason -- Inevitable Enhancement -- References.

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Text of Note

The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics - that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault's, Agamben's and Esposito's writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both positions as equally problematic, as both presuppose the existence of a stable, autonomous subject capable of making decisions concerning the future of human nature, while in the age of genetic technology the nature of this subjectivity shall be less an origin than an effect of such decisions. Bringing together a biopolitical critique of the way this controversial issue has been dealt with in liberal moral and political philosophy with a philosophical analysis of the nature of and the relation between life, politics, and technology, the author sets out to outline the contours of a more responsible engagement with genetic technologies based on the idea that technology is an intrinsic condition of humanity.

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MIL

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814033

Title

Eugenics, Biopolitics, and the Challenge of the Techno-Human Condition

Eugenics-- Political aspects.

Eugenics-- Social aspects.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.

Eugenics-- Political aspects.

Eugenics-- Social aspects.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.

BUS-- 032000

SOC-- 000000

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Edition

Class number

Camp, Nathan van

Date of Transaction

20200823071140.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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