Humanism and Technology : Opportunities and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Anthony B. Pinn (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 246
Series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book interrogates the ways in which new technological advances impact the thought and practices of humanism. Chapters investigate the social, political, and cultural implications of the creation and use of advanced forms of technology, examining both defining benefits and potential dangers. Contributors also discuss technology’s relationship to and impact on the shifting definitions we hold for humankind.

International and multi-disciplinary in nature and scope, the volume presents an exploration of humanism and technology that is both racially diverse and gender sensitive. With great depth and self-awareness, contributors offer suggestions for how humanists and humanist organizations might think about and relate to technology in a rapidly changing world. More broadly, the book offers a critical humanistic interrogation of the concept of “progress” especially as it relates to technological advancement.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Humans, Humanities, and Humanism in an Age of Technology....Pages 15-30
Which Humanist Are You? Reflections on Our Trans- and Posthumanity....Pages 31-54
E-Racing Identity? Black Bodies On and Off the Technological (Chopping) Block....Pages 55-74
Approach to the Singularity: The Road to Ruin, or the Path to Salvation?....Pages 75-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
A Humanist Evaluation of Substantial Life Extension Through Biomedical Research and Technology....Pages 99-122
Technological Progress and Pious Modernity: Secular Liberals Fall Behind the Times....Pages 123-142
Mad Science or School-to-Prison?....Pages 143-157
Tailoring Biotechnologies: A Humanist Perspective?....Pages 159-186
Books and Beyond: The Importance of Story in the Digital Age....Pages 187-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-239

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Technology;Media and Communication

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