Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.

FUKUYAMA, Francis.

Item Number: 18043

London: Profiles Books, 2002.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To ____, To a teacher and friend- affectionately, Francis Fukuyama Aug 20,2002. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.

A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of "the end of history," Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man's changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity's utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person's descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions.