Viroid Life Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition

Name: Viroid Life Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition
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ISBN: 9780415154352

ISBN-10: 0415154359

ISBN-13: 9780415154352

Edition: 1997

Authors: Keith Ansell-Pearson

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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 Lifeboldly 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 Lifebrings together the tradition of Nietszchean thought with new work in exploratory biology and machinic thinking. Offering insights from Darwin to Gilles…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/29/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK.



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Loving the Poison



Towards the Overhuman



Dead or Alive



Nietzsche Contra Darwin



Viroid Life



Timely Meditations on the Transhuman Condition


Bibliography


Index