Redesigning life : : eugenics, biopolitics, and the challenge of the techno-human condition / / Nathan Van Camp.
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&...
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| Superior document: | Philosophy & Politics, Number 27 |
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| 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. |
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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 ""