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Euro-Transhumanism : Twisting Truth, Goodness, Beauty.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorenz Sorgner, Stefan.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- What if the future of humanity wasn't driven by Silicon Valley's vision?At the edge of its dissolution, European humanism faces profound challenges as AI, biotechnology and posthuman theory reshape what it means to be human.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: New Boxes of Becoming
- The Twisted Gospel of Becoming
- Different Castles Made of Sand: The Desert Is Our Home
- A Brief Overview
- Euro-Transhumanism: In a Nutshell
- Transhumanism
- History
- Varieties of transhumanism
- Reception of transhumanism in the 21st century
- Politics of transhumanism today
- Future of transhumanism and anti-ageing research
- Euro-Transhumanism
- Classic transhumanism and Euro-Transhumanism
- Entanglements of Transhumanism
- Is it fair to conceptualize transhumanism in this manner?
- Conclusion
- Brave New Human
- The totalitarianism accusation
- The vampire capitalism accusation
- The anthropocentrism reproach
- The injustice charge
- Generative AI, Digital Data, and Superintelligence
- AI and digital consciousness, and life
- AI and the relevance of digital data
- Generative AI, innovation, and creativity
- The Case of Africa, China, and the Meaning of Digital Data
- We Have Always Been Cyborgs
- Interfaces, actuators, intentionality, and agency
- Open- or closed-source algorithms
- Actual and artificial digital data
- Euro-Transhumanism: Ex Positivo
- Visions
- Diversity
- Pessimism
- Perspectivism
- Hermeneutics
- Social democratic liberalism
- Increased healthspan
- Carbon-based evolution
- Digital panopticon
- Creating a meaningful lifestyle
- Ambiguity of the Enlightenment tradition
- Nietzsche is an ancestor
- Euro-Transhumanism: Ex Negativo
- Non-anthropocentric
- Non-logocentric
- Non-essentialist
- Non-perfectionist
- Non-paternalistic
- Non-totalitarian
- Non-dualistic
- Non-aletheic
- Non-utopian
- Non-foundational
- Non-heteronormative.
- Non-authoritarian
- Religion
- Utopias versus visions
- Love, sex, gender, religion
- Religion, perspectivism, Dukkha, and transhumanism
- Politics
- Critics of liberal democracies
- Defenders of liberal democracies
- Enhancement and equality
- Morality
- Humans have always been hybrids
- Enhancing cognitive capacities
- Educating a human towards posthuman virtues
- Establishing an internet panopticon
- Ethics
- Pain, suffering, Dukkha
- Responses to Dukkha
- Berlin style
- Turin style
- Milan style
- Rome style
- Florence style
- Naples style
- Thirteen Aphorisms for the Becoming Child of the Future
- Education
- Human exceptionalism and its Greco-Roman Pedigree
- Metahumanites - humanities dance the twist
- Metahumanites realize the twist of humanities with posthuman studies
- Metahumanites neither do futurology nor STS
- Posthuman studies course
- The Case of In Vitro Meat
- Counterarguments
- Additional reflections
- From nature to culture
- The Case of Surrogacy
- Conclusions
- The Case of AI, Art, and Creativity
- Art
- Pythagorean reflections on music
- Plotinus on beauty
- Ficino on music
- Posthuman music and becoming
- The Posthuman Paradigm Shift, Beauty, and Art
- The posthuman paradigm shift
- From beauty as symmetry towards its prohibition and affirmation of relational alternatives
- Performative self-contradictions and the twist
- Symmetry as health indicator
- Increased healthspans, digitization, and a higher quality of life
- Inclusion through uncancelling cancel culture
- Practice or theory?
- How to treat magic and witchcraft?
- The Case of Sex
- The Forge of Becoming
- Notes
- Preface: New Boxes of Becoming.
- Euro-Transhumanism: In a Nutshell
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-5745-X
- OCLC:
- 1591755629
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