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Our Posthuman Future

Francis Fukuyama

2002272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2002
first published
  • 2003Picador · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780312421717
  • 2002Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780374236434
  • 2003Profile Books Ltd · 400 pagesISBN 9781861974952

"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.

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