What will become of humanity?

A plea for a new humanism

Authors

  • Thomas Fuchs Universität Heidelberg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35830/devenires.v25i50.964

Keywords:

Fromm, posthumanism, transhumanism, narcissism, artificial intelligence

Abstract

Our own earthly incarnation, our concrete and corporal relationship with others and our insertion in an ecological environment of living beings are the factors that could help us rethink our self-image as human beings in times of accelerated technological transformation.

Author Biography

Thomas Fuchs, Universität Heidelberg

Psychiatrist and philosopher, Thomas Fuchs is Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophy and Psychiatry at the Department of General Psychiatry, Universität Heidelberg. His research areas lie at the intersection of phenomenology, psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience, with a main emphasis on embodiment, enactivism, temporality and intersubjectivity.

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Erich Fromm, Humanismus als reale Utopie, Munich 1992

Yuval Harari, Homo Deus. Eine Geschichte con Morgen, Munich 2017

Siri Hustvedt, Die Illusion der Gewissheit, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018.

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Elisabeth von Thadden, Die berührungslose Gesellschaft, Munich 2018.

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Published

2024-07-15

How to Cite

Fuchs, T. (2024). What will become of humanity? A plea for a new humanism. Devenires, 25(50), 35–55. https://doi.org/10.35830/devenires.v25i50.964

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