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(2018) French philosophy of technology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Cybernetics is an antihumanism
technoscience and the rebellion against the human condition
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
pp. 139-156
There is no science that does not rest on a metaphysics, though typically it remains concealed. It is the responsibility of the philosopher to uncover this metaphysics, and then to subject it to criticism. What I have tried to show is that cybernetics, far from being the apotheosis of Cartesian humanism, as Heidegger supposed, actually represented a crucial moment in its demystification, and indeed in its deconstruction.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89518-5_9
Full citation:
Dupuy, J.-P. (2018)., Cybernetics is an antihumanism: technoscience and the rebellion against the human condition, in S. Loeve, X. Guchet & B. Bensaude-Vincent (eds.), French philosophy of technology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 139-156.
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