The Coming of the Body
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this startling new work, Hervé Juvin argues that developments in medicine and science are redefining what it means to be human. Living longer than ever before, and yet increasingly obsessed with longevity and youth, the people of the Western world face...
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In this startling new work, Hervé Juvin argues that developments in medicine and science are redefining what it means to be human. Living longer than ever before, and yet increasingly obsessed with longevity and youth, the people of the Western world face an existence disconnected from need, suffering and time-and they are losing their moral compass in the process.New industries have sprung up to promote plastic surgery, sex-free reproduction, fitness fads and bizarre diets. Behind this commercial activity is an ideology sympathetic to both eugenics and euthanasia, and dreaming of immortality. In this radically changed world, young people inhabit a digitalized, virtual environment at a far remove from the vital experiences of the body.
Juvin's central message is a sinister paradox: what communism set out to do, and disastrously failed to achieve, capitalism is in the process of realizing-the discredited messianic goal of reinventing humanity.
Autoren-Porträt von Herve Juvin
HERVÉ JUVIN is President and founder of Eurogroup Institute and is the author of a number of books on economics, finance and management. He was a columnist in Le Monde and now regularly contributes to L'Expansion and Enjeux/Les Echos. His latest book, entitled La Production du Monde (The Production of the World), will be published by Éditions Gallimard in September 2007.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Herve Juvin
- 2010, 188 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 21,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzer: John Howe
- Verlag: VERSO
- ISBN-10: 1844673103
- ISBN-13: 9781844673100
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Englisch
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"L'avènement du corps belongs to another genre: the philosophical essay, illustrated with an abundance of striking-if rarely sourced-data, and delivered with an intellectual mordancy and crisp literary éclat that remain, even today, peculiarly French." Perry Anderson, New Left Review
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