Humanism and its Discontents

Introduction: Humanism and its Discontents - The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism, Paul Jorion.- I. Humanism on the wane.- Strong Artificial Intelligence and theological anthropology: one problem, two solutions, Marius Dorobantu.- II. Complement and supplements.- On Prosthetic Existence: what differentiates deconstruction from transhumanism and posthumanism, Susanna Lindberg.- III. Boundaries and frontiers.- Discourse between Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Paul Jorion on Nietzsche, Fascism and Moving Beyond Humanism: From Friedrich Nietzsche to Stefan Sorgner: the short path leading from superhumanism to metahumanism, Paul Jorion.- Dignity, Personhood, and the Sacred, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner.- Truth? Still breathing!, Paul Jorion.- Enlightenment, Truths, and the Sciences, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner.- When skin and technology intertwine, Hélène Jeannin.- IV. The Enlightenment recovered.- On Max More's extropianism, Salomé Bour.- Transhumanism and Advanced Capitalism: elitist logics and dangerous implications, Alexander Thomas.- V. The cunning of Reason.- Posthumanism, transhumanism, superhumanism and metahumanism from an adaptive standpoint, Paul Jorion,.- Ethics and Complexity: Why standard ethical frameworks cannot cope with socio-technological change, Clément Vidal & Francis Heylighen.

Paul Jorion, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, France. He trained as an anthropologist, sociologist and psychoanalyst. He taught at Cambridge University, UK, was a UCI Regents Lecturer and a member of the UCLA, USA, Human Complex Systems. He played a pioneering role in AI (British Telecom's Connex project) and in developing financial algorithms.