ON T RA NS HUMA NI S M

ON TRANS-
HUMANISM

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

T R AN SL AT ED B Y SP E N C E R H AW K I N S

The Pennsylvania State University Press

University Park, Pennsylvania
 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz, author. | Hawkins, Spencer, translator.

Title: On trans-humanism / Stefan Lorenz Sorgner ; translated by Spencer Hawkins.
Other titles: Transhumanismus. English | On transhumanism
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
| Translation of Transhumanismus : “die gefährlichste Idee der Welt”!?. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Summary: “Examines widespread myths about transhumanism and explores the
most pressing ethical issues in the debate over technologically assisted human
enhancement”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020036961 | ISBN 9780271087924 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Transhumanism.
Classification: LCC B842.5 .S6713 2020 | DDC 144—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036961

This volume includes edited and expanded versions of the following articles, which have
been published elsewhere: “Nietzsche, der Übermensch und Transhumanismus,” in
Enhancement und Genetik, edited by N. Knoepffler and J. Savulescu (Freiburg i. B.: Alber
Verlag, 2009), 127–44; “Enhancement von Emotionen und Moral: Eine Landkarte der
Verbesserungsdebatte,” in Medizin, Moral und Gefühl: Emotionen im ethischen Diskurs;
Jahrbuch Ethik in der Klinik (JEK), edited by A. Frewer, F. Bruns, and W. Rascher, 5th ed.
(Würzburg: K&N, 2012), 157–76; “Posthumane leben besser: Ist der Transhumanismus
die gefährlichste Idee der Welt?,” Aufklärung und Kritik 19, no. 4 (2012): 160–73; and
“Stammbäume des Meta-, Post- und Transhumanismus” and “Plädoyer für einen schwachen
Transhumanismus,” in “Schwerpunkt Transhumanismus,” edited by S. L. Sorgner, special
issue, Aufklärung und Kritik 22, no. 3 (2015): 4–27 and 273–290.
Translation and “Translator’s Introduction: Transhumanism in Translation” by Spencer
Hawkins.

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