Download or read book The Promethean Right written by Romain d'Aspremont and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All throughout the West, right-wing populism is gaining ground under the bewildered gaze of globalized elites. The conservatives are jubilant: their ideas are set to triumph and defeat the liberal-libertarian agenda. What if it was just the opposite? What if the Right could hope for no more than fleeting electoral victories? What if, in the long run, it was doomed to lose the ideological war? The Right suffers from a crippling handicap: for regardless of how bold it can be fighting opposing visions of utopias, if it remains idle in forging one of its own then it will wither having failed to secure its place in the future. This attitude gives the Left the supreme privilege of guiding the future and forging the New Man.This is why the Right must itself urgently come up with a new vision of Man. This essay provides said vision and goes beyond. It develops a new progressivism, revamps transhumanism, outlines a new morality, and births a Promethean cosmology. Romain d'Aspremont graduated from Sciences Po Paris. He formulates an uncompromising critique of the ideological fundamentals of the conservative Right.
Download or read book The Promethean Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promethean Divide written by Robert W. Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three adventurers; a wealthy publisher, a soldier-of-fortune private eye, and an eccentric techie investigate the suspicious death of a friend. The case puts them on the trail of a strange serial killer who seems to have extraordinary powers. Their search leads to a secret society and astounding truths about mankind's past and future. As the human race rapidly approaches its technological singularity, these three comrades become enmeshed in the unfolding future of mankind. They are privileged to glimpse man's destiny on the other side of The Promethean Divide.
Download or read book The Right Promethean Fire written by Ihab Hassan and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Right Promethean Fire written by Ihab Hassan and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promethean Fire written by Charles J. Lumsden and published by . This book was released on 1984-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a mutual change in genetics and culture brought about the development of human mental capacity
Download or read book Promethean Ambitions written by William R. Newman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned—and often negative—responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts—a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being—the homunculus—led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.
Download or read book The Promethean written by Owen Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American billionaire Henry Hockenheimer decides to leave his mark on the world by creating the first Superman, but his ideas are thwarted on every side by the most brilliant minds of the academic world. And when Hockenheimer succeeds, despite the many obstacles placed in his way, he discovers that success can be the cruelest failure of all.
Download or read book The Prometheans written by Max Adams and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely unschooled, they were part of a new generation of artists, scientists and inventors who witnessed the creation of the modern world. William, the eldest, was a cussedly eccentric inventor who couldn't look at a piece of machinery without thinking about how to improve it; Richard, a courageous soldier, fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo; Jonathan, a hellfire preacher tormented by madness and touched with a visionary genius reminiscent of William Blake, almost burned down York Minster in 1829; while John, the youngest Martin, single-handedly invented, mastered and exhausted an entire genre of painting, the apocalyptic sublime, while playing host to the foremost writers, scientists and thinkers of his day. In The Prometheans Max Adams interweaves the fascinating story of these maverick siblings with a magisterial and multi-faceted account of the industrial, political and artistic ferment of early 19th-century Britain. His narrative centres on a generation of inventors, artists and radical intellectuals (including the chemist Humphry Davy, the engineer George Stephenson, the social reformer Robert Owen and the poet Shelley) who were seeking to liberate humanity from the tyranny of material discomfort and political oppression. For Adams, the shared inspiration that binds this generation together is the cult of Prometheus, the titan of ancient Greek mythology who stole fire from Zeus to give to mortal man, and who became a potent symbol of political and personal liberation from the mid-18th century onwards. Whether writing about Davy's invention of the miner's safety lamp, the scandalous private life of the Prince Regent, the death of Shelley or J.M.W. Turner's use of colour, Adams's narrative is pacy, characterful, and rich in anecdote, quotation and memorable character sketch. Like John Martin himself, he has created a sprawling and brightly coloured canvas on an epic scale.
Download or read book The Progressive Environmental Prometheans written by William B. Meyer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.
Download or read book Prometheans in the Lab written by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne and published by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents includes: Soap and Nicholas Leblanc, Color and William Henry Perkin, Sugar and Norbert Rillieux, Clean water and Edward Frankland, Fertilizer, poison gas, and Fritz Haber, Leaded gasoline, safe refrigeration and Thomas Midgley, Jr., Nylon and Wallace Hume Carothers, DDT and Paul Hermann Muller, Lead-free gasoline and Clair C. Patterson.
Download or read book The Promethean File written by Ron Edwards and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigating the mysterious deaths of defense employees, Alex Scott seeks to unravel a bizarre military-industrial conspiracy before he becomes the victim of another strange death.
Download or read book Promethean Flame written by Corvis Nocturnum and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tome that delves deep into our nearly forgotten ancient past, examining the links between philosophy, metaphysical and esoteric orders. Corvis investigates the dark secret connections in occult histories. Dare to seek the truths hidden long ago.
Download or read book Blood and Iron written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeker, a woman enchanted by the Faerie Queen and forced to kidnap human children for the pleasure of her mistress, goes after her latest prey, a Merlin, a child possessing a limitless magic that could tip the ultimate balance of power. Reprint.
Download or read book Appleseed written by Masamune Shirow and published by Dark Horse Manga. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future utopian metropolis of Olympus, ESWAT agents Deunan and Brieros have fought to keep the peace and prevent the Olympus from sliding back into chaos. When Olympus intelligence learns of a giant Landmate powersuit being built in secrecy, ESWAT is mobilized to crack the mystery and disrupt a terrorist operation that could turn the fragile peace into Wold War IV. Older teens.
Download or read book Prometheanism written by Christopher John Müller and published by Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of the essay 'On Promethean Shame' by Günther Anders with a comprehensive introduction and analysis of his work.
Download or read book The Concept of Human Rights in Judaism Christianity and Islam written by Catharina Rachik and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses" points out the roots of the concept of ''human rights'' in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It shows how far the universal validity of ''human rights'' opposes in some crucial points with religious traditions. The volume demonstrates that new perspectives are introduced to the general discussion about human rights when related to religious traditions. Especially the interreligious viewpoint proves that a new kind of debate about human rights and its history is necessary.
