From Humanism to Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism? (Hardcover)

Contents: Irina Deretic/Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Introduction ? Irina Deretic: On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras ? Rafael Ferber: Plato’s ≪Side Suns≫: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the ≪Good≫ in the Philebus (65a1?5) ? Christos Y. Panayides: Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology ? Pauliina Remes: ≪For Itself and from Nothing≫: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood ? Hans Otto Seitschek: Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism ? Ivan Vukovic: Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity ? Drago Ðuric: Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics ? Una Popovic: Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being ? Nenad Cekic: Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism? ? Evanghelos Moutsopoulos: Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today? ? Boris Bratina: Other or The Other? ? Mikhail Epstein: Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology ? Regine Kather: Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values ? Marija Bogdanovic: Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics ? Karen Gloy: Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation ? Evangelos D. Protopapadakis: Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe ? J. Hendrik Heinrichs: Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age? ? Mirjana Pavlovic: The ≪Literature of Humanity≫: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman ? Biljana Dojcinovic: Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective ? Marina Milivojevic-Madarev: The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane ? Evi D. Sampanikou: Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings ? Predrag Milidrag: Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy ? Yvonne Forster: The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art ? Goran Gocic: One Genealogy of De-centring ? Jaime del Val: Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism ? Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically.