Sex and the Posthuman Condition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. After the Singularity: The Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 1-10

3. Sexbots on the Rise

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 11-23

4. Three Literary Paradigms: Pygmalion, The Sandman and The Future Eve

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 24-40

5. Promethean Shame and the Engineering of Love

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 41-52

6. The Rehabilitation of the Human Body: Lawrence and Houellebecq

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 53-63

7. The Marquis de Sade on Happiness, Nature and Liberty

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 64-72

8. Synthetik Love Lasts Forever

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 73-79

9. Kissengers and Surrogates

   • Michael Hauskeller

   Pages 80-89

10. Back Matter

    Pages 90-98

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This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots.

• Transhumanism
• posthumanism
• human enhancement
• sex
• future of sex
• sex robots
• sexbots
• automatisation of love
• neurotechnological enhancement
• utilitarianism
• hedonism
• bibliography
• corpus
• Enzo Paci
• freedom
• future
• liberty
• love
• nature
• robot
• singular

“Hauskeller’s new volume focuses on the posthumanist use–current and prospective–of technologies to improve or otherwise control love life. … the book brings up issues whose importance to the immediate present signal how pivotal are the more perennial underlying philosophical problems. … Readers with an interest in the health of the present world should read this very accessible book. Everyone from philosophers to industrialists and average readers could benefit.” (Lantz Fleming Miller, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 22, 2016)

• University of Exeter, UK

  Michael Hauskeller

Michael Hauskeller is an Associate Professor at, and Head of, the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published more than a dozen philosophical books including Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life (2007) and Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (2013), and more than 80 research papers.

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