The Proactionary Imperative

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Steve Fuller, Veronika Lipińska

   Pages 1-11

3. Precautionary and Proactionary as the Twenty-first-century’s Defining Ideological Polarity

   • Steve Fuller, Veronika Lipińska

   Pages 12-43

4. Proactionary Theology: Discovering the Art of God-Playing

   • Steve Fuller, Veronika Lipińska

   Pages 44-61

5. Proactionary Biology: Recovering the Science of Eugenics

   • Steve Fuller, Veronika Lipińska

   Pages 62-98

6. A Legal and Political Framework for the Proactionary Principle

   • Steve Fuller, Veronika Lipińska

   Pages 99-128

7. The Proactionary Manifesto

   • Steve Fuller, Veronika Lipińska

   Pages 129-137

8. Back Matter

   Pages 138-153

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The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.

• capital
• genes
• nature

"The book's foremost strength is its willingness to address the challenging social justice issues which those on the libertarian side of the transhumanist movement might otherwise overlook. Also greatly commendable is the varied array of material the authors summon to make their case. Accordingly, anyone who identifies with the need for future collectivist and democratic (as opposed to the typical market-driven) strategies for human enhancement, will undoubtedly find this text a well-informed 21st century starting point." - Sociological Imagination

• Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

  Steve Fuller

• Department of Law, University of Warwick, UK

  Veronika Lipińska

Author Steve Fuller: Steve Fuller is Augustus Comte Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.He is author of eighteen books including Humanity 2.0: What It Means to be Human Past, Present and Future, Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism, Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, The Intellectualand Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

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