Human being @ risk enhancement, technology, and the evaluation of vulnerability transformations /
Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability,...
| Main Author: | Coeckelbergh, Mark. |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Philosophy of engineering and technology ;
v. 12. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability
- The Transhumanist Challenge
- Anthropology of Vulnerability
- Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability
- Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability
- Ethics of Vulnerability (i): Implications for Ethics of Technology
- Ethics of Vulnerability (ii): Imagining the Posthuman Future
- Ethics of Vulnerability (iii): Vulnerability in the Information Age
- Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private Distinction
- Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: The Heel and the Arrow.