TAMAR SHARON, Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case for Mediated Posthumanism

Year 2014, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 151 - 154, 01.05.2014

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Abstract

Tamar Sharon’s book, therefore, entails the
question of what it means to be human — or posthuman — from a broader scope with an insight into the
posthumanities, a field that merges the social, natural, and medical sciences. Sharon’s critical assessment
over the posthumanist debates presents a detailed analysis of various approaches to posthumanism. The
author critically engages with the alternatives presented to explain the meaning of being human, and she
suggests that several of the approaches to posthumanism that have been grounded in a humanist ontology
highlighting a distinction between the human and the technological do not address the question of what it
means to be human from a fully posthumanist perspective.  

Keywords

Biotechnology, Human Nature, Posthumanism, TAMAR SHARON

TAMAR SHARON, Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case for Mediated Posthumanism

Abstract

Tamar Sharon’s book, therefore, entails the
question of what it means to be human — or posthuman — from a broader scope with an insight into the
posthumanities, a field that merges the social, natural, and medical sciences. Sharon’s critical assessment
over the posthumanist debates presents a detailed analysis of various approaches to posthumanism. The
author critically engages with the alternatives presented to explain the meaning of being human, and she
suggests that several of the approaches to posthumanism that have been grounded in a humanist ontology
highlighting a distinction between the human and the technological do not address the question of what it
means to be human from a fully posthumanist perspective.  

Keywords

TAMAR SHARON, Human Nature, Biotechnology, Posthumanism

References

• TAMAR SHARON, Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case for Mediated Posthumanism (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014), 241 pp. ISBN 978-9400775534