03877nam a22005295i 4500 978-94-007-6025-7 DE-He213 20210617024709.0 cr nn 008mamaa 130217s2013 ne | s |||| 0|eng d 9789400760257 978-94-007-6025-7 10.1007/978-94-007-6025-7 doi B53 HP bicssc PHI000000 bisacsh QD thema 128 23 Coeckelbergh, Mark. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Human Being @ Risk [electronic resource] : Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations / by Mark Coeckelbergh. 1st ed. 2013. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013. XIV, 218 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 1879-7202 ; 12 Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge -- Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability -- Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability -- Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology -- Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future -- Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age -- Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction -- Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability -- Conclusion. 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. Philosophy. Phenomenology . Ethics. Philosophy of Man. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E28000 Phenomenology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E44070 Philosophy of Technology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34050 Ethics. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E14000 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789400799189 Printed edition: 9789400760264 Printed edition: 9789400760240 Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 1879-7202 ; 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6025-7 ZDB-2-SHU ZDB-2-SXPR Humanities, Social Sciences and Law (SpringerNature-11648) Philosophy and Religion (R0) (SpringerNature-43725)