Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.(Book Review)

The Christian Century | July 26, 2003| | Copyright

By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 256 pp., $25.00.

POSTHUMAN," the newest buzz word, is beginning to eclipse "postmodern." Postmodernism consists of a philosophical reexamination of foundational suppositions of the Enlightenment: objectivity, realism, universal truths, rationalism, the blank slate, essences and meta-narratives (socialism, liberalism, etc.). But "posthuman" refers to biology, as thinkers grapple with the fact that we have entered a period of monumental advance in the life sciences. Just as splitting the atom in 1945 set the stage for the ...

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