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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Burdett, Michael Stephen (1981-....)
Titre(s) : Eschatology and the technological future [Texte imprimé] / Michael S. Burdett
Publication : New York (N. Y.) : Routledge, 2015
Description matérielle : xiv, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in religion ; 43
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in religion
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of speculative theories
about what the future of humankind may look like. These "technological futurisms"
have arisen from significant advances in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology
and information technology and are drawing growing scrutiny from the philosophical
and theological communities. This text seeks to contextualize the growing literature
on the cultural, philosophical and religious implications of technological growth
by considering technological futurisms such as transhumanism in the context of the
long historical tradition of technological dreaming. Michael Burdett traces the latent
religious sources of our contemporary technological imagination by looking at visionary
approaches to technology and the future in seminal technological utopias and science
fiction and draws on past theological responses to the technological future with Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul. Burdett's argument arrives at a contemporary
Christian response to transhumanism based around the themes of possibility and promise
by turning to the works of Richard Kearney, Eberhard Jüngel and Jürgen Moltmann.
Throughout, the author highlights points of correspondence and divergence between
technological futurisms and the Judeo-Christian understanding of the future
Sujet(s) : Technologie -- Religion -- Christianisme
Technique et civilisation -- Prévision
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138826335. - ISBN 1138826332. - ISBN 9781315739397 (erroné)
EAN 9781138826335
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443374150
Notice n° :
FRBNF44337415
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