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Ingrid Dunér

Researcher

  • Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
  • Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences

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E-mail ingrid.dunerkultur.luse

Mobile +46 70 571 35 15

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Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 30

My thesis Controlling Destiny: Julian Huxley's Post-Darwinian Evolutionism and the History of Transhumanism explores the history of transhumanism through a study of Julian Huxley's (1887-1975) post-Darwinian evolutionism and ideas of mankind's growing power to shape its own evolutionary future. As the person responsible for coining the term transhumanism in English, and as a promoter of a vanguard vision, Huxley - along with likeminded future-oriented thinkers of his generation - helped naturalize a way of thinking about a possible future and disseminate ideas about conscious evolution and human enhancement into a wider imaginary.

Focusing first on uncovering how and why Huxley's transhumanism came to be and then on tracing the intellectual roots and origins of the new transhumanists of the 1970s - 1990s, the study investigates continuities and discontinuities in mode of thinking, with specific regard to ideas of control, conscious evolution, and the posthuman.

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Ingrid Dunér

Researcher

  • Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
  • Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences

Contact information

E-mail ingrid.dunerkultur.luse

Mobile +46 70 571 35 15

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund

Internal post code 30

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