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Humanity In-Between and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Monika Michałowska

    1. Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland

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  • Includes an interdisciplinary perspective on posthumanism and virtual environments
  • Discusses a wide range of topics expanding the current discourse on humanity with innovative approaches and concepts
  • Written by an international group of authors with leading experts in the area

Part of the book series: Integrated Science (IS, volume 16)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. A New Way of Coming-To-Be

    • Anna Alichniewicz, Monika Michałowska
    Pages 1-17

  3. Biodigital Being(s): Praxis Body Futures

    • Galit Ariel
    Pages 19-41

  4. Avatar Therapy and Clinical Care in Psychiatry: Underlying Assumptions, Epistemic Challenges, and Ethical Issues

    • Raffaella Campaner, Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
    Pages 43-61

  5. Humanity’s In-Betweenness: Towards a Prehistory of Cyborg Life

    • Steve Fuller
    Pages 63-80

  6. “The Universe of the Person is the Universe of Man?” Expanding the Schelerian Concepts of Philosophical Anthropology and Personhood into the Twenty-First Century

    • Susan Gottlöber
    Pages 81-102

  7. Posthumanizing Relaxation in Science-Fiction ASMR

    • Joanna Łapińska
    Pages 103-119Open Access

  8. Human and Non-Human Persons in not Inhuman Civilization

    • Aleksandra Łukaszewicz
    Pages 121-139

  9. The eXtended Uni/Meta/Verse (XV) and the Liminal Spaces of Body, Ownership, and Control

    • Steve Mann
    Pages 141-152

  10. Sophia: Potentials and Challenges of a Modern Cyborg

    • Sigrid Schmitz
    Pages 153-178

  11. From Natural Humans to Artificial Humans and Back Again: An Integrative Neuroscience-AI Perspective on Confluence

    • Roy M. Treur, Jan Treur, Sander L. Koole
    Pages 179-202

  12. The Transhuman Unbounded Existence: AI, Nanorobots, and Computational Simulation

    • Natasha Vita-More
    Pages 203-218
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About this book

This volume discusses the definitional problems and conceptual strategies involved in defining the human. By crossing the boundaries of disciplines and themes, it offers a transdisciplinary platform for exploring the new ideas of the human and adjusting to the dynamic in which we are plunged. The emerging cyborgs and transhumans call for an urgent reconsideration of humans as individuals and collectives. The identity of the human in the 21st century eludes definitions underpinned by simplifying and simplified dichotomies. Affecting all the spheres of life, the discoveries and achievements of recent decades have challenged the bipolar categorizations of human/nonhuman and human/machine, real/virtual and thus opened the door to transdisciplinary considerations. Ours is a new world where the boundaries of normality and abnormality, a legacy of the long history of philosophy, medicine, and science need dismantling. We are now on our way to re-examine, re-understand, and re-describe what normal-abnormal, human-nonhuman, and I-we-they mean. We find ourselves facing what resembles the liminal stage of a global ritual, a stage of being in-between—between the old anthropocentric order and a new position of blurred boundaries. The volume addresses philosophical, bioethical, sociological, and cognitive approaches developed to transcend the binaries of human-nonhuman, natural-artificial, individual-collective, and real-virtual. 




Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland

    Monika Michałowska

About the editor

Monika Michałowska is a university professor at the Chair of Humanities, Department of Bioethics, Medical University of Łódź, Poland. Her research focuses on two main areas: medieval philosophy and bioethics. She has authored and co-authored many books and papers. Her bioethical research concentrates on bioethical aspects of reproductive medicine, feminist approaches to issues such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryo, gamete and mitochondrial donation, as well as human enhancement and cross disciplinary perspectives (bioethics/film studies/cultural studies/body, bio and cyborg art) on dying, ageing, and embodiment.

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