Human Being @ Risk Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations /

• Main Author: Coeckelbergh, Mark. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 12
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Ethics.; Phenomenology.; Philosophy.; Technology > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.; Philosophy of Technology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6025-7

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,...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Descriptive Anthropology of Vulnerability
• �Chapter 1. The Transhumanist Challenge
• Chapter 2. An Anthropology of Vulnerability
• Chapter 3. Cultures and Transformations of Vulnerability
• Part II Normative Anthropology of Vulnerability
• Chapter 4. Ethics of Vulnerability (1): Implications for ethics of technology
• Chapter 5. Ethics of Vulnerability (2): Imagining the Posthuman future
• Chapter 6. Ethics of Vulnerability (3): Vulnerability in the Information Age
• Chapter 7. Politics of Vulnerability: Freedom, Justice, and the Public/Private distinction
• Chapter 8. Normative Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Art of Coping with Vulnerability
• Conclusion.