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https://doi.org/10.21464/sp31104

»Future Human« as homo fabricatus. Notes on the Futuristic Anthropology of Jean Baudrillard and Peter Sloterdijk

András Lajos Kiss ; Hochschule Nyíregyháza, Institut für Geschischte und Philosophie, Sóstói u. 31/b, HU–4400 Nyíregyháza


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Abstract


During the 20th century it became crystal clear that nature, including the human nature, is not only being reproduced on the level of its “original” appearance, which was also the case earlier, but that – thanks to the effective support from the techno-scientific establishment – it is being recomposed already at the level of its laws and codes. Among scientists in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, these new phenomena mostly provoke the fear of future. But there are always exceptions. Jean Baudrilliard and a well-known philosopher of culture Peter Sloterdijk proposed a radically different opinion on this matter. They feel that humanization is the process controlled by the human beings themselves. It means that the evolution of human beings did not cease to occur. This paper attempts to weighs their arguments and draw an objective conclusion.

Keywords

human being; anthropology; artefacts; technics; gene technology; future human; immortality; enhancement

Hrčak ID:

179893

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179893

Publication date:

5.9.2016.

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