书名: Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition
作者: Keith Ansell Pearson (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (September 29, 1997)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415154359
ISBN-13: 978-0415154352
Book Description
Evolution is seen to be entering a bio-technological phase. Nietzsche's affirmation that "man is something that must be overcome" no longer has a rhetorical ring given the means at our disposal at the end of the twentieth century. Viroid Life boldly challenges existing explanations of these changes inherited from modernity, arguing that they have exhausted their usefulness and new models are needed to guide us in mapping through the future.
Exploring and critically examining the new realities of artificial life that confront us, Viroid Life brings together the tradition of Nietszchean thought with new work in exploratory biology and machinic thinking. Offering insights from Darwin to Gilles Deleuze and Guy Debord and the Situationist movement, Pearson provides a brave starting point for any inquiry on the future of the "human".
Review
"...subtle and compelling ... This book will be of interest to those seeking a fresh and thoughtful approach to Nietzsche, to those concerned with the status of technology and biology in the late twentieth century, and to those who wish to pose questions about the future of the human." -- New Nietzsche Studies
"Clever, bold, provocative, iconoclastic, and urgent... This book provides a breathtaking sketch of the possible future of philosophy itself." -- Daniel Conway, Pennsylvania State University
About the Author
Keith Ansell Pearson is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He recently edited Deleuze and Philosophy (Routledge 1996).
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作者: Keith Ansell Pearson (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (September 29, 1997)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415154359
ISBN-13: 978-0415154352
Book Description
Evolution is seen to be entering a bio-technological phase. Nietzsche's affirmation that "man is something that must be overcome" no longer has a rhetorical ring given the means at our disposal at the end of the twentieth century. Viroid Life boldly challenges existing explanations of these changes inherited from modernity, arguing that they have exhausted their usefulness and new models are needed to guide us in mapping through the future.
Exploring and critically examining the new realities of artificial life that confront us, Viroid Life brings together the tradition of Nietszchean thought with new work in exploratory biology and machinic thinking. Offering insights from Darwin to Gilles Deleuze and Guy Debord and the Situationist movement, Pearson provides a brave starting point for any inquiry on the future of the "human".
Review
"...subtle and compelling ... This book will be of interest to those seeking a fresh and thoughtful approach to Nietzsche, to those concerned with the status of technology and biology in the late twentieth century, and to those who wish to pose questions about the future of the human." -- New Nietzsche Studies
"Clever, bold, provocative, iconoclastic, and urgent... This book provides a breathtaking sketch of the possible future of philosophy itself." -- Daniel Conway, Pennsylvania State University
About the Author
Keith Ansell Pearson is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He recently edited Deleuze and Philosophy (Routledge 1996).
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