Our Posthuman Future

Introduction

Francis Fukuyama, the well-known author of The End of History and the Last Man, takes on a subject far from his usual field of international political economy: biotechnology. Yet, in his introduction, he shows that there is indeed a link: his 1989 book met with a great deal of criticism, and one argument he found impossible to refute was that “there could be no end of history unless there was an end of science.” This new book takes that concept further, and considers the “impact of modern biology on the understanding of politics.”

Discussion

Being a child of ...