Der verbesserungsbedürftige Mensch und die posthumanistischen Kulturen

Philosophisch-anthropologische Gedanken zur Normalisierung des Human Enhancement

Abstract

This article will consider the question to what extent the proliferation of technologies for human enhancement, both inside and outside of Western civilization, seems to confirm transhumanism’s self-perception as an anthropology for contemporary society. In this context, the argument is established that other discourses are required to think about the anthropological implications of aforementioned tendencies. This recontextualization becomes imperative in order to reply the normalization of emergent selfunderstandings in times of the last subversion of ‘man’ as presupposed entity.