“Emancipation Put to the Test of “Natality”: The Banality of the Impersonal
Self and Technological Power”.

Alessandra Papa

“Emancipation Put to the Test of “Natality”: The Banality of the Impersonal Self and Technological Power”.

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Abstract

How is the desire for independence construed in our times?Technology reflects an image of man that has broken the shacklesof nature and overturned origin. This can give rise to an emancipated yet impersonal self, always in search of an Archimedean point outside Earth in order to create one’s ownconditions of existence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	“Reactualising Emancipation in Contemporary Ethical Discourse”
Pages	205-220
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

Corporeality, impersonal, autonomy, technology, birth, surrogate

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