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Redesigning life : eugenics, biopolitics, and the challenge of the techno-human condition / Nathan Van Camp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camp, Nathan van, author.
- Series:
- Collection "Philosophie et politique" ; no. 27.
- Collection "Philosophie et politique"
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biopolitics.
- Eugenics.
- Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Biotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 166 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bruxelles : P.I.E. Peter Lang, [2015]
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Enhanced Life 17
- Redesigning Life 17
- The Return of Eugenics 21
- The Liberal Eugenics 25
- Life needs to be Protected 31
- The New Eugenics and the End of Liberalism 38
- Chapter 2 Bare Life 47
- The Biopolitical Turn 47
- From Life Politics to a Politics of Life 49
- The Power to "Make Life" and "Let Die" 55
- Existence Without Life 62
- Sacred Life 72
- Form-Of-Life 82
- Chapter 3 Enframed Life 89
- Heidegger and Biotechnology 89
- The Grown and the Made 91
- Dasein and Life 96
- The Essence of Biotechnology 100
- Chapter 4 Natal Life 109
- Hannah Arendt and Biotechnology 109
- The Techno-Human Condition 111
- Natality Between Necessity and Freedom 114
- The Symbolic Reduction of the Event of Parturition 118
- The Prematurity of Natal Life 122
- Chapter 5 Prosthetic Life 127
- The Forgetting of Epimetheus 127
- Deconstructing the Anthropological Difference 130
- Epiphylogenetic Life 137
- Technology and Communicative Reason 143
- Inevitable Enhancement 153.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 2875742817
- 9782875742810
- OCLC:
- 913305324
- Publisher Number:
- 99963816346
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