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Our Posthuman Future

Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

By Francis Fukuyama

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| Paperback | 9780312421717

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A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of 'the end of history,' Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man's changing understContinue

A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of 'the end of history,' Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man's changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity's utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person's descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions. In Our Posthuman Future, one of our greatest social philosophers begins to describe the potential effects of genetic exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature.

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  • A penny for his thoughts

    Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama Profile £17.99, pp400 A little, for Francis Fukuyama, has gone a long way. In 1989 he made himself famous by opining that, with the breaching of the Berlin Wall, history had ended. His pronouncement hardly qualif ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Danger: men at work

    Francis Fukuyama is a brilliant phrase-maker, there's no doubt about that. In 1989 he published an essay entitled 'The End of History', which proposed that all viable alternatives to liberal democracy would soon have exhausted themselves. The fall of ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 272 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0312421710
  • ISBN-13: 9780312421717
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: May 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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