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Crafting Humans: From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond

內容簡介

內容簡介 Crafting humans--and its corollary human enhancement-- is a contested topic, both in medical sciences and the humanities. With continuing advances in science and technology, scientists and the general public alike are aware that the basic foundations of the human condition are now at stake. This volume contributes to this growing body of work. It offers insights into some of the reflections and imaginaries that have inspired and legitimated both theoretical and practical programmes for 'crafting' humans, ranging from the religious spiritualist and the philosophical cultural to the secular and the scientific scientistic; from the mystical quest for human perfection to the biopolitical eugenic state of the twentieth century, and current genetic theories of human enhancement. This volume discusses these topics in a synchronized way, as interrelated variants of the most central story in history, that of human perfectibility.

作者介紹

作者介紹 ■作者簡介Marius Turda／編者Frank Ankersmit，Moshe Idel，Antonis Liakos 等著

產品目錄

產品目錄 ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsFrank AnkersmitAftermaths and “Foremaths”: History and HumansMoshe IdelCrafting a Golem: the Creation of an Artificial AnthropoidAntonis LiakosThe End of History as the Liminality of the Human Condition: From Kojève to AgambenRoger GriffinBio-nomic Man (and Woman): Fantasies of Anthropological Revolution as a Reaction to Modernity’s Nomic CrisisMerrynEkbergEugenics: Past, Present, and FutureMarius TurdaCrafting a Healthy Nation: European Eugenics in Historical ContexMaria Sophia QuineMaking Italians: Aryanism and Anthropology in Italy during the RisorgimentoAlison BashfordJulian Huxley’s TranshumanismList of ContributorsBiographyIndex of Names

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