This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment's notion of human perfectibility. It explains also how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight against human extinction which may involve trespassing the boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or dematerialisation of the Self and colonisation of distant planets and stars. While Bernard Stiegler contends that there is no Artificial Intelligence as all intelligence is artificial, Stefan Lorenz and Paul Jorion debate about truth and reason in today's world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of theNietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism.

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ISBN 9783030670030
Author Paul Jorion
Format Hardback
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG