Die Infragestellung des Leibes durch Technik

Plädoyer für eine Reformulierung des Körperbegriffs

Abstract

The article “The questioning of the body through technology – a plea for a reformulation of the concept of the body” deals with the transhumanist visions of a digital existence. The focus here lies on the question of whether transhumanism gives up the idea of an embodied subject. On the one hand, it shows that it is also essential for a silicon-based existence to have a body and to be a body. On the other hand, with reference to a theological discourse on the body, the irreducibility of physical existence is addressed. Compared to the theological discourse, however, transhumanism succeeds in uncovering a desideratum: the relatedness and permeation of human by technology. This prompts the author to broaden the understanding of corporeal relationality and to reformulate the concept of the body.