Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Social

This book examines the dependence of transhumanist arguments on the credibility of the narratives of meaning in which they are embedded. By taking the key ideas from transhumanist philosophy the desirability of human self-design and immortality, the elimination of all suffering and the expansion of human autonomy Michael Hauskeller explores these narratives and the understanding of human nature that informs them. Particular attention is paid to the theory of transhumanism as a form of utopia, stories of human nature, the increasing integration of the radical human enhancement project into...

W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois' American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar's ideas of race and social identity.

At Harvard, Du Bois studied with such luminaries as William James and George Santayana, scholars whose contributions were largely intellectual. But arriving...

Oswald Spengler: Fruhzeit der Weltgeschichte. Fragmente aus dem Nachlass

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2013

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck: Munchen: Beck, 1966.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:

• Oswald Spengler: Fruhzeit der Weltgeschichte. Fragmente aus dem Nachlass, Unter Mitwirkung von Manfred Schroter herausgegeben von Anton Mirko Koktanek, Munchen: Beck, 1966.

The topic of biopolitics is a timely one, and it has become increasingly important for scholars to reconsider how life is objectified, mobilized, and otherwise bound up in politics. This cutting-edge volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects all aspects of our lives, including the relationships between the human and nonhuman, the concept of political subjectivity, and the connection between art, science, philosophy, and politics. In addition to tracing the evolving philosophical discourse around...