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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.(Book Review)
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July 26, 2003|
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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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Identity Crisis.("Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution")
Magazine article from: National Review
; Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the...permanent demands of human nature better than any other...nature, and so open a "posthuman" future that will include dangerous...experiments. Given that human nature "shapes and constrains...
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The Abolition of Man?('Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution')
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: CONSEQUENCES...whether human nature is fixed...chapter of Our Posthuman Future, "The most...will alter human nature and thereby...But in Our Posthuman Future, Fukuyama...understand is that human nature is what...
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Bioethics for the twenty first century and beyond: where ought we look for guidance?(Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
; Our Posthuman Future--Consequences...Fukuyama in Our Posthuman Future--Consequences...the future of human nature are at stake...subjects of Our Posthuman Future, his fourth...that preserving human nature is the proper...
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Our Posthuman Future.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
; ...of what could become "our posthuman future." In order to describe...inquiry into the definition of human nature itself. However, the result...Because Fukuyama maintains that human nature is the result of progressive...He must demonstrate that "human nature exists, is a ...
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Afro-American
; ...that it will alter human nature and thereby move us...important because human nature exists, is a meaningful...Excerpt from Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama Farrar...the planet in Our Posthuman Future, an alarmingly unenlightened...
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
Newspaper article from: Tennessee TRIBUNE, The
; ...that it will alter human nature and thereby move us...important because human nature exists, is a meaningful...Excerpt from Our Posthuman Future--Francis Fukuyama...the planet in Our Posthuman Future, an alarmingly unenlightened...
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Fiddling with nature.(Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution By Francis Fukuyama)
Magazine article from: The American Prospect
; ...Fukuyama has moved on. In Our Posthuman Future, he has looked past the end...may be the last word for the human nature of 2002, but what if human nature...prevent it? The first part of Our Posthuman Future is an informative survey of contemporary...
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review
; OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: CONSEQUENCES OF THE...potential to remake the human nature that liberal democracy...developments he fears. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the...to alter fundamentally human nature. Given the breadth of...
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`Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution' by Francis Fukuyama; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.(The Providence Journal)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...fascinating ``Our Posthuman Future.'' Fukuyama...it threatens human nature, we have to...politics of human nature, Fukuyama fails...something we call human nature either. The...with. ``Our Posthuman Future'' is an important...
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When philosophy is irrelevant.('Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution')
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the...Parts I and III of Our Posthuman Future one will get both a...Human Rights," "Human Nature" and "Human Dignity...warranted account of human nature. He says, plausibly...
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