Contra habermas and towards a critical theory of human nature and the question of genetic enhancement
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2006 Number 60
Contra habermas and towards a critical theory of human nature and the question of genetic enhancement
Lenny Moss pages -
Abstract
Analysing Jürgen Habermas’s recent book, ‘The Future of Human Nature’, Moss suggests that Harbermas’s attitude to ‘liberal eugenics’ represents a transparent neo-Kantian ethics of abstention, and a retreat from his earlier anthropological perspective, rooted as it was in traditions of Critical Theory. Moss argues that Habermas’s dismissal of liberal eugenics is a cure worse than the disease, and suggests a closer adherence to the Critical tradition that maintains its anthropological dimension.
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Lenny Moss (2006) Contra habermas and towards a critical theory of human nature and the question of genetic enhancement, New Formations, 2006(60), -