Cover -- Contents -- Introducing Post- and Transhumanism (Robert Ranisch & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner) -- Transhumanism -- Posthumanism -- About this Volume -- Confessions -- Lands of Cockaygne -- Neo-Socratic Reflections -- Ontologies of Becoming -- Paragone of the Arts -- Bibliography -- Pedigrees (Stefan Lorenz Sorgner) -- Transhumanism -- Posthumanism -- In Between Post- and Transhumanism: Metahumanism -- Modernity and Postmodernity -- Beyond Humanism Movements -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Religion (Hava Tirosh-Samuelson) -- Clarification of Terms -- Philosophical and Cultural Posthumanisms -- Technological Posthumanism and Transhumanism -- The Religious Roots of Transhumanism -- Transhumanism as a New Religious Movement -- Religious Traditions Engage Transhumanism -- Conclusion: Post- and Transhumanism and the Post-Secular Moment -- Bibliography -- Prometheus Performer or Transformer? (Trijsje Franssen) -- The Myth -- Posthumanism -- Transhumanism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Nietzsche (Yunus Tuncel) -- 1. Nietzsche as Ancestor of Posthumanism -- 1.1 The Will to Power Ontology -- 1.2 Rationality and Perspectivism -- 1.3 Relationship between Humans and Animals -- 1.4 The Posthuman, the Cyborg, and Nietzsche's New Type of Human -- 2. Nietzsche as Ancestor of Transhumanism -- 2.1 The Übermensch and the Posthuman and the Transhuman of Transhumanists -- 2.2 The Importance of the Renaissance Ideal for Transhumanists and Nietzsche -- 2.3 Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming and Human Beings as Work-in-progress -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Utopia (Michael Hauskeller) -- Bibliography -- Brave New World (Curtis D. Carbonell) -- Bibliography -- Life Extension Eternal Debates on Immortality (Sascha Dickel & Andreas Frewer) -- 1. Suggested Methods of Life Extension in Transhumanist Thought -- 1.1. Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.

1.2. Nanomedicine -- 1.3. Mind Uploading -- 1.4. Cryonics -- 2. Technological Life Extension: A Modern Utopia -- 2.1. The Discourse of Technological Immortality -- 2.2. Never-Ending Individual Options -- 2.3. Critical Perspectives -- 3. Posthuman Immortals -- Bibliography -- Politics (James Hughes) -- Becoming Posthuman -- Transhumanism and Humanism's Critics -- Transhumanist Politics -- Post-Genderism: An Opportunity for Posthumanist/Transhumanist Dialogue -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Morality (Robert Ranisch) -- Transhumanism and the Bioliberals -- Transhumanism versus Bioconservatism -- Morality of Transhumanism -- (Morphological) Freedom -- Harm-Principle -- Reproductive Freedom -- Promoting Well-being and Reducing Suffering -- Rejecting Anthropocentrism -- Rejecting the Wisdom of Nature -- Progressivism -- Obligation to Support Science -- Perfectionism -- Obligation to Enhance -- Transhumanist Morality: Between Neutrality and Perfectionism -- Posthumanism: A Critical Take on the Transhumanist Project -- Moral Bio-Enhancement: Better Acting Trough Chemistry -- Moral Status Enhancement and the Fear of Post-Persons -- Posthumanist Criticism on Human Exceptionalism -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Ontology (Thomas D. Philbeck) -- Definitions and Differences -- Transhumanism and Posthumanism -- Ontological Frameworks -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Nature (Martin G. Weiss) -- Nature and Posthumanism or Heidegger and Agamben on Human Being and the Animal -- Transhumanism and (Human) Nature -- Enhancement and Human Dignity -- Transhumanism and the Co-creation of Nature -- Bibliography -- Evolution (Steve Fuller) -- 1. Posthumanism and Transhumanism as Alternative Takes on Evolution -- 2. Is Evolution Something that One Overcomes or to Which One Submits? -- 3. Evolution's Normative Implications in a Post- and Transhumanist Key.

Bibliography -- The Body (Francesca Ferrando) -- The Body -- How We Became Humans -- Which Humans are Human? -- Embodied Selves -- Posthuman Bodies -- Transhuman Bodies -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Bioart (Andy Miah) -- Defining Bioart -- Rejecting Bioart -- Interpreting Bioart -- Conclusion: Bioart as Trans- and Posthumanist Thought -- Bibliography -- New Media Art (Evi Sampanikou) -- The Heritage of Conceptual Art and Posthumanist Art -- Joseph Beuys: Conceptual Performance as an Ancestor of Posthumanist Art -- Nam June Paik: From Fluxus to Video Sculpture -- Bill Viola: From Experimental VHS Video to Digital Media Screening as Director -- Shirin Neshat and William Kentridge: Posthumanist Sex and Identity and Humanism in Post-Humanist Disguise -- Transhumanist Art: A Non-Humanistic Discipline? -- Bibliography -- Literature (Marcus Rockoff) -- Post- and Transhumanism -- Three Classes of References to Transhumanism in Literature -- References to Specific Technologies Relevant for Transhumanism -- Thematological References to the Transhumanist Idea of Overcoming Human Nature -- References to Transhumanism as an International Movement -- Everybody's Darling: Using Literature to Illustrate the Pros and Cons of Post- and Transhumanism -- Questioning Our Perception of Humanity by Reading Literature -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Science Fiction Literature (Domna Pastourmatzi) -- The Use of Science Fiction -- The Transhuman and Posthuman Condition in Science Fiction -- Bibliography -- Movies (Dónal P. O'Mathúna) -- Technology -- Anthropocentrism -- Problems with Technology -- Controlling Evolution -- Injustice -- Embodiment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Music (Stefan Lorenz Sorgner) -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors.