La dissoluzione della natura umana: Il potenziale critico delle biotecnologie fra emancipazione ed essenzialismo

Just as rationalization, with its tendency to objectify, in the end leads to the destabi-lization of any kind of substantialism, the biotechnologies, which were originally intended as an extreme method of bodily control, are becoming the most blatant example of how this...

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Published in:Annali di studi religiosi
Main Author: Weiss, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Italian
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Published: 2006
In: Annali di studi religiosi
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Summary:Just as rationalization, with its tendency to objectify, in the end leads to the destabi-lization of any kind of substantialism, the biotechnologies, which were originally intended as an extreme method of bodily control, are becoming the most blatant example of how this dominion is not possible. That is to say, there can be no totally autonomous subject completely cut of from whatever historical-bodily determination. The desire to absolutely control animality by way of reason, as expressed in the biotechnologies, transforms itself into the inconfutable demonstration of humanity’s constitutive finitude.
ISSN:2284-3892
Contains:Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi