1st Edition
Viroid Life Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition
By Keith Ansell Pearson
Copyright 1997
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Nietzsche's vision of the 'overman' continues to haunt the postmodern imagination. His call that 'man is something that must be overcome' can no longer be seen as simple rhetoric. Our experiences of the hybrid realities of artificial life have made the 'transhuman' a figure that looks over us all. Inspired by this vision, Keith Ansell Pearson sets out to examine if evolution is 'out of control'... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Loving The Poison; Chapter 2 Towards the Overhuman; Chapter 3 Dead Or Alive; Chapter 4 Nietzsche Contra Darwin; Chapter 5 Viroid Life; Chapter 6 Timely Meditations On the Transhuman Condition;
Biography
Keith Ansell Pearson is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Research at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Nietzsche contra Rousseau and An Introduction to Nietzsche as a Political Thinker.
