04352nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-54719-5 DE-He213 20251030112027.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240503s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031547195 978-3-031-54719-5 10.1007/978-3-031-54719-5 doi BL HRA bicssc REL000000 bisacsh QRA thema Geretto, Mattia. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76363 Humans, Angels, And Cyborgs Aboard Theseus' Ship [electronic resource] : Metaphysics, Mythology, and Mysticism in Trans-/Posthumanist Philosophies / by Mattia Geretto. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 148 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. Preliminary Metaphysical Discourse -- Chapter 2. The Theseus’ Ship Paradox: Possibilities and Limits of a Trans-/Posthumanist Interpretation -- Chapter 3. Theseus and the Minotaur, Ariadne and the Labyrinth. Addressing Contemporary Monsters, Death, and Trans-/Posthumanist ‘Mysticism’. “Any book of contemporary metaphysics that draws so heavily on Bruno and Leibniz is clearly on the right track! Mattia Geretto does that and more in his book, which extends new materialism down unexpected paths. This is a learned and imaginative work.” —Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA “In this compact but rich and erudite book, Geretto accomplishes the nearly impossible, reconciling contemporary trans-/post-humanist theories with key texts and concepts—modern and classical, secular and spiritual—threatened with obsolescence in the ongoing deconstruction of the Humanist tradition. In elaborating the possibility of a different metaphysical basis for posthuman thought, Geretto balances the turn to a radical materialism with a pre-modern mystical tradition that locates the immateriality of intelligence in the materiality of being-beyond-the-human.” — Russell Kilbourn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada This book addresses the most suggestive themes of transhumanism and critical posthumanism by placing them in dialogue with classic problems of metaphysics, and with some great thinkers of the past (Bruno, Spinoza, and above all Leibniz). The main purpose of this comparison is to invite transhumanists and critical posthumanists to consider a highly complex problematic tradition rooted in the history of philosophy. This study also makes use of examples drawn from the history of mythology, angelology, and mysticism. At the same time, the book promotes dialogue between scholars of classical metaphysics and philosophy of religion, and the potential metaphysical/spiritual theories developed independently by transhumanist and posthumanist thinkers within an anti-dualist and naturalistic philosophical framework. The goal is to ‘enhance’ contemporary transhumanism and posthumanism by promoting the need to safeguard intelligence as a principle, without falling into the trap of a violent and egotistic metaphysics. Mattia Geretto received a PhD in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Perugia, Italy. Among his publications, L’angelologia leibniziana (2010) and many other articles on Leibniz. Since 2011 he is affiliated to Ca' Foscari University of Venice. . Religion. 71588 Religion Philosophy. 68553 Science Social aspects. 69032 Religion. 71588 Philosophy of Religion. 68554 Posthumanism. 76364 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031547188 Printed edition: 9783031547201 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54719-5 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 59640 59640