After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future by Taylor, Mark C.
After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future by Taylor, Mark C.

After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future

The world is on fire and time for avoiding impending disaster is rapidly running out. This catastrophe...
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Author: Mark C. Taylor
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Language: English
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After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future by Taylor, Mark C.

After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future

$660.49
After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future by Taylor, Mark C.

After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future

$660.49
Author: Mark C. Taylor
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

The world is on fire and time for avoiding impending disaster is rapidly running out. This catastrophe has deeply entrenched foundations: a belief in human exceptionalism and human mastery over the Earth. Accelerating technological changes ranging from genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology to biobots, neuroprosthetics, and artificial intelligence are creating new worlds in which human beings will either be radically transformed or become extinct.

After the Human is an ambitious and audacious grand synthesis that weaves together philosophy, theology, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, information theory, ecology, plant and animal cognition, and artificial intelligence to forge a new philosophical vision for the future. Mark C. Taylor calls for replacing human exceptionalism with a theory of radical relationalism, an account of the world in which everything is interrelated and codependent. People, in this telling, are not isolated individuals separated from each other and set apart from the complex world they are destined to dominate but integral parts of a vital web, where differences enrich each other and nourish the greater whole. Ranging from the grounded worlds of dirt and soil to the most abstract realms of quantum ecology, After the Human reveals the alternative intelligences and transformative possibilities that provide hope for life beyond our perilous moment.

Author: Mark C. Taylor
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780231218610

About the Author
Mark C. Taylor taught at Williams College and Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including most recently A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life, with Jack Miles (Columbia, 2022). Taylor lives in the Berkshire Mountains, where he is creating a philosophical sculpture garden named neχus.
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