Redesigning life : : eugenics, biopolitics, and the challenge of the techno-human condition / / Nathan Van Camp.

• Superior document: Philosophy & Politics, Number 27
• VerfasserIn: Van Camp, Nathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Brussels, [Belgium] : : P. I. E. Peter Lang,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Collection "Philosophie et politique" ; Number 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics - that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault's, Agamben's and Esposito's writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both positions as equally problematic, as both presuppose the existence of a stable, autonomous subject capable of making decisions concerning the future of human nature, while in the age of genetic technology the nature of this subjectivity shall be less an origin than an effect of such decisions. Bringing together a biopolitical critique of the way this controversial issue has been dealt with in liberal moral and political philosophy with a philosophical analysis of the nature of and the relation between life, politics, and technology, the author sets out to outline the contours of a more responsible engagement with genetic technologies based on the idea that technology is an intrinsic condition of humanity.

Table of Contents

""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter One: Enhanced Life""; ""Redesigning Life ""; ""The Return of Eugenics ""; ""The Liberal Eugenics ""; ""Life needs to be Protected ""; ""The New Eugenics and the End of Liberalism ""; ""Chapter Two: Bare Life""; ""The Biopolitical Turn ""

""From Life Politics to a Politics of Life """"The Power to "Make Life" and "Let Die"""; ""Existence Without Life ""; ""Sacred Life ""; ""Form-Of-Life ""; ""Chapter Three: Enframed Life""; ""Heidegger and Biotechnology ""; ""The Grown and the Made ""; ""Dasein and Life ""; ""The Essence of Biotechnology ""; ""Chapter Four: Natal Life""

""Hannah Arendt and Biotechnology """"The Techno-Human Condition ""; ""Natality Between Necessity and Freedom ""; ""The Symbolic Reduction of the Event of Parturition ""; ""The Prematurity of Natal Life ""; ""Chapter Five: Prosthetic Life""; ""The Forgetting of Epimetheus ""

""Deconstructing the Anthropological Difference """"Epiphylogenetic Life ""; ""Technology and Communicative Reason ""; ""Inevitable Enhancement ""; ""References ""