Sex and the Posthuman Condition

✍ Scribed by Michael Hauskeller (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 107
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
After the Singularity: The Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman....Pages 1-10
Sexbots on the Rise....Pages 11-23
Three Literary Paradigms: Pygmalion, The Sandman and The Future Eve....Pages 24-40
Promethean Shame and the Engineering of Love....Pages 41-52
The Rehabilitation of the Human Body: Lawrence and Houellebecq....Pages 53-63
The Marquis de Sade on Happiness, Nature and Liberty....Pages 64-72
Synthetik Love Lasts Forever....Pages 73-79
Kissengers and Surrogates....Pages 80-89
Back Matter....Pages 90-98

✦ Subjects

Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Gender Studies; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind; Social Philosophy

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