TAMAR SHARON, Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case for Mediated Posthumanism
| Autor: | DÖNMEZ, Başak Ağın |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 11, Issue: 1 151-154 Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| ISSN: | 1309-6761 |
| Popis: | Tamar Sharon’s book, therefore, entails thequestion of what it means to be human — or posthuman — from a broader scope with an insight into theposthumanities, a field that merges the social, natural, and medical sciences. Sharon’s critical assessmentover the posthumanist debates presents a detailed analysis of various approaches to posthumanism. Theauthor critically engages with the alternatives presented to explain the meaning of being human, and shesuggests that several of the approaches to posthumanism that have been grounded in a humanist ontologyhighlighting a distinction between the human and the technological do not address the question of what itmeans to be human from a fully posthumanist perspective. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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