Publication

2002-04-17 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Goodreads1067976
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002100914
  • OCLC Control Number49502279
  • Better World Books9780374236434
  • Open LibraryOL7423255M

Classifications

  • LCCTP248.23 .F85 2002
  • LCCTP248.23.F85 2002
  • DDC303.48/3
and 1 more
  • LCCTP248.23 .F85 2003

Description

"In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves, history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that the greatest advances still to come will be in the life sciences, Fukuyama now asks how the ability to modify human behavior will affect liberal democracy.". "In Our Posthuman Future, our greatest social philosopher describes the potential effects of our exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

I was born in 1952, right in the middle of the American baby boom.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology RevolutionFarrar, Straus and Giroux2002-04-17

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