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Limits of the Human

Limits of the Human ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 16 number 4 December 2011 odernity defines its civilisation and epoch, Mits political desires and ethical norms through the value and meaning of being human. It is in terms of the rights, needs and nature of a common humanity that universal laws are conceived as valid and true. Today, however, the very concept of the human appears to be in crisis as we acknowledge our collective agency in precipitating a slide towards a catastrophic future EDITORIAL for our planet, or register the aporias of the international human rights regime in the face of INTRODUCTION the multitudinous sites of geopolitical conflict and violence that have succeeded the Cold War. As the fundamentals of ethics are challenged by debjani ganguly the anticipation of a post-human future, whether fiona jenkins of an intelligence explosion, an event horizon termed ‘‘singularity’’ by the futurist Ray Kurzweil, or of a biologically re-engineered human subject enabled by advances in the LIMITS OF THE human genome project and the technologies of HUMAN mammal cloning, we face a pressing need to recalibrate for our times the conceptual weight that the category of the human has acquired over two centuries of critical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 16 number 4 December 2011 odernity defines its civilisation and epoch, Mits political desires and ethical norms through the value and meaning of being human. It is in terms of the rights, needs and nature of a common humanity that universal laws are conceived as valid and true. Today, however, the very concept of the human appears to be in crisis as we acknowledge our collective agency in precipitating a slide towards a catastrophic future...
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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 16 number 4 December 2011 odernity defines its civilisation and epoch, Mits political desires and ethical norms through the value and meaning of being human. It is in terms of the rights, needs and nature of a common humanity that universal laws are conceived as valid and true. Today, however, the very concept of the human appears to be in crisis as we acknowledge our collective agency in precipitating a slide towards a catastrophic future EDITORIAL for our planet, or register the aporias of the international human rights regime in the face of INTRODUCTION the multitudinous sites of geopolitical conflict and violence that have succeeded the Cold War. As the fundamentals of ethics are challenged by debjani ganguly the anticipation of a post-human future, whether fiona jenkins of an intelligence explosion, an event horizon termed ‘‘singularity’’ by the futurist Ray Kurzweil, or of a biologically re-engineered human subject enabled by advances in the LIMITS OF THE human genome project and the technologies of HUMAN mammal cloning, we face a pressing need to recalibrate for our times the conceptual weight that the category of the human has acquired over two centuries of critical

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 2011

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