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Julian Huxley, evolutionism and the history of transhumanism

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Julian Huxley, evolutionism and the history of transhumanismby Ingrid Dunér.
Author:	Dunér, Ingrid.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xiii, 366 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	TranshumanismHistory.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81720-5
ISBN:	9783031817205$q(electronic bk.)

Julian Huxley, evolutionism and the history of transhumanism
Dunér, Ingrid.

Julian Huxley, evolutionism and the history of transhumanism[electronic resource] /by Ingrid Dunér. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiii, 366 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors,2945-6606. - Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors..

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Beginnings of a Vision -- Chapter 2. A New Step Forward in Mastery: Science, Evolution, and Control -- Chapter 3. A Razor for the Divine: Constructing a New Religion -- Part II. If I Were Dictator: Visionary Practices -- Chapter 4. Statesman of Science, Vanguard Visioneer -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Life -- Part III. Prophet of Destiny: The Vision as Transhumanism -- Chapter 6. Evolutionary Apocalypse -- Chapter 7. Transhuman End-Goals -- Part IV. Meeting of Transhumanisms: Huxley and Transhumanism 2.0. -- Chapter 8. Huxley's Latest Word -- Chapter 9. Huxley's Vanguard Vision and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Transhumanism -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Sources.

Open access.

The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887-1975) attempted to promote a "religion for the future," which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. Transhumanism was an attempt to unite a more traditional humanistic view of the human as containing some form of core essence or potential with an evolutionary point of view of humans as a work in progress. Before humans, natural selection had been responsible for the transformation of life. Through its ordering principles and through chance, it had given rise to humankind, which had ushered in a new phase of evolution. Humanity stood on the threshold of yet another critical point in evolution: The consciously purposive phase of evolution. This open access book explores the history of transhumanism by analyzing how Julian Huxley's transhumanism develops and why it does at this particular point in time, by placing it firmly within the context of his specific scientific and sociopolitical milieu, starting roughly in the interwar years and stretching over the Second World War to the 1970s. Continuing, the study then focuses on the new transhumanists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and investigates continuity in mode of thinking, contributing to a more coherent understanding of transhumanism, its history and of modern projects of human enhancement. The book captures how scientific and technological development in relation to society and social order shapes images and expectations of the future and of what future is desirable. Ingrid Dunér, PhD, is affiliated with the Division of the History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University, Sweden, where she is teaching courses on the history of medicine, intellectual history, and the history of the future.

ISBN: 9783031817205$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-81720-5doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Huxley, Julian,
1887-1975.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Transhumanism
--History.

LC Class. No.: B842.5

Dewey Class. No.: 144

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