Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress by Rubin, Charles T.
Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress by Rubin, Charles T.

Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress

Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us...
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Author: Charles T. Rubin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress by Rubin, Charles T.

Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress

$62.09
Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress by Rubin, Charles T.

Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress

$62.09
Author: Charles T. Rubin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able to link our minds telepathically, and will live for centuries--or maybe forever. The perfection of a "posthuman" future awaits us.

Or so the story goes. In reality, the rush toward a posthuman destiny amounts to an ideology of human extinction, an ideology that sees little of value in humanity except the raw material for producing whatever might come next.

In Eclipse of Man, Charles T. Rubin traces the intellectual origins of the movement to perfect and replace the human race. He shows how today's advocates of radical enhancement are--like their forebears--deeply dissatisfied with given human nature and fixated on grand visions of a future shaped by technological progress.

Moreover, Rubin argues that this myopic vision of the future is not confined to charlatans and cheerleaders promoting this or that technology: it also runs through much of modern science and contemporary progressivism. By exploring and criticizing the dreams of post humanity, Rubin defends a more modest vision of the future, one that takes seriously both the limitations and the inherent dignity of our given nature.


Author: Charles T. Rubin
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 09/02/2014
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781594037368

About the Author
Charles T. Rubin is an associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, where he teaches courses in political philosophy and about the normative aspects of policy making. He is the author of The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Radical Environmentalism (1998), and has written for The New Atlantis (where he is a contributing editor), First Things, Commentary, and other publications.
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