Advancing the Human Self. Do Technologies Make Us "Posthuman"?, New ed, Hardback/Ewa Nowak

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies or cognitive skills? Are doomed to disintegration and an episodic self? This book examines how technologies affect our selves from the perspective of health humanities (e.g., transplantology, bionics, disability studies), phenomenology, philosophy of mind and posthumanism Publisher: Peter Lang AG Author(s): Ewa Nowak Illustration(s): 5 Illustrations, unspecified Number of pages: 242 Collection: Dia-Logos Publication date: 2020 Dimensions: 156 x 218 x 25 Cover type: Hardback