Genes, Technology, and Apocalypse

An Epilogue for Humanity

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2024-07-24



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This book offers a critique of a certain contemporary discourse in popular science that consists of (1) identifying the origins and therefore essential nature of Homo Sapiens; and (2) identifying the nature of technology. The author’s critique is that this double gesture generates a deterministic worldview – man is evil and technology has its own necessity – that operates to exonerate humanity from responsibility to the horrors of the 20th century, epitomized in Auschwitz and Hiroshima, for example. The author situates this operation within what he identifies as an “apocalyptical-eschatological state of mind”. Yochai Ataria explains that the dynamics of technology and the quest for the first human are the two central vectors shaping both scientific and popular discourse today, highlighting the importance of understanding the deep connection between the two.
Pages
229 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2024-07-24
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783031591969
EAN PDF
9783031591976

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2
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22
Taille du fichier
6830 Ko
Prix
116,04 €
EAN EPUB
9783031591976

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Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
Taille du fichier
14172 Ko
Prix
116,04 €

Yochai Ataria is an associate professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel He is the author of several book, includings: The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (Palgrave, 2017); Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Palgrave, 2018); Levi versus Ka-Tsetnik (Palgrave, 2021); Consciousness in Flesh (Palgrave, 2022).

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