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Hyde, Michael J.

 
9781481309769: Perfection: Coming to Terms With Being Human
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1481309765 ISBN 13 : 9781481309769
Editeur : Baylor University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In a masterful survey of the history of the idea of human perfection, prize-winning author and noted rhetorician Michael J. Hyde leads a fascinating excursion through Western philosophy, religion, science, and art. Eloquently and engagingly he delves into the canon of Western thought, drawing on figures from St. Augustine and John Rawls to Leonardo da Vinci and David Hume to Kenneth Burke and Mary Shelley. On the journey, Hyde expounds on the very notion and "Otherness" of God, the empirical and ontological workings of daily existence, the development of reason, and the bounds of beauty. In the end, he ponders the consequences of the perfection-driven impulse of medical science and considers the implications of the bourgeoning rhetoric of "our posthuman future." It is nothing short of a triumphant examination of why we humans are challenged to live a life of significant insignificance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Hyde is University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics in the Department of Communication and is on the faculty of the Program for Bioethics, Health and Society in the School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment and the award-winning The Call of Conscience. In addition, he is the editor of The Ethos of Rhetoric and Communication Philosophy and the Technological Age; with Walter Jost he co-edited Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time; and he is co-editor of After the Genome - A Language for Our Biotechnological Future. He and his wife live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Éditeur
Baylor University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1481309765
ISBN 13 
9781481309769
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
340
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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