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This article critically surveys the current bioethical and politico-philosophical debate about th... more This article critically surveys the current bioethical and politico-philosophical debate about the ethical permissibility of a so-called ‘liberal eugenics ’ and argues that neither the liberal argument for nor the liberal argument against human genetic enhancement is internally consistent as, ultimately, each ends up violating the very liberal principles it nonetheless pretends to defend. In particular, it will be shown that while the argument against a new eugenics necessarily entails a preemptive dehumanization of any potential enhanced form of life, the argument for it threatens to reduce any non-enhanced form of life to a “wrongful life ” or a life not worth living. It will therefore be concluded that the specific stakes of this contentious issue cannot be grasped within a liberal conceptual framework.
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In the last thirty years, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has been engaged in developing ... more In the last thirty years, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has been engaged in developing a post-humanist political theory which, in line with post-structuralist theories, challenges the concept of sovereignty. The provisional climax of his project was the publication of Homo Sacer: ...
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Despite the recent revival of interest in Weimar political theology to rethink the relationship b... more Despite the recent revival of interest in Weimar political theology to rethink the relationship between religion and politics, one name is hardly ever mentioned in these debates: Hannah Arendt. Arendt�s apparent silence on this issue is peculiar because not only did she intellectually mature in the Weimar context and did she personally know many of the protagonists of the Weimar political theology debate, but also and especially because Carl Schmitt�s famous thesis that all political concepts are in reality secularized theological concepts is obviously diametrically opposed to Arendt�s idea of a self-contained politics. This paper argues that the reason why Arendt did not intervene directly in this debate is that she was mainly concerned with deconstructing the more encompassing claim that politics requires a force external to it, the origins of which she traces back to Plato�s attempt to transform political action into a mode of fabrication. It will be shown that the main target of...
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Recent years have seen a growing interest in the relationship between religion and politics. The ... more Recent years have seen a growing interest in the relationship between religion and politics. The confidence liberal democracy gained after the collapse of communism soon suffered a serious blow following the resurgence of various religious movements reclaiming their rightful place in the public sphere or even openly declaring their hostility to the secular order. This rather unexpected return of the religious on the political scene urged scholars to seriously reconsider the dominant Enlightenment view that the forces unleashed by modernity will eventually totally deprive religion of its authority in public matters. In particular, the question was raised whether it is possible at all to imagine a politics that would not find its legitimacy in a transcendent absolute. Much of this scholarly debate has been framed in terms of what is called “political theology,” a term of ancient lineage, but the main outlines of which are usually traced back to a fierce debate among intellectuals in W...
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This article critically surveys the current bioethical and politico-philosophical debate about th... more This article critically surveys the current bioethical and politico-philosophical debate about the ethical permissibility of a so-called ‘liberal eugenics ’ and argues that neither the liberal argument for nor the liberal argument against human genetic enhancement is internally consistent as, ultimately, each ends up violating the very liberal principles it nonetheless pretends to defend. In particular, it will be shown that while the argument against a new eugenics necessarily entails a preemptive dehumanization of any potential enhanced form of life, the argument for it threatens to reduce any non-enhanced form of life to a “wrongful life ” or a life not worth living. It will therefore be concluded that the specific stakes of this contentious issue cannot be grasped within a liberal conceptual framework.
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Despite the recent revival of interest in Weimar political theology to rethink the relationship b... more Despite the recent revival of interest in Weimar political theology to rethink the relationship between religion and politics, one name is hardly ever mentioned in these debates: Hannah Arendt. Arendt�s apparent silence on this issue is peculiar because not only did she intellectually mature in the Weimar context and did she personally know many of the protagonists of the Weimar political theology debate, but also and especially because Carl Schmitt�s famous thesis that all political concepts are in reality secularized theological concepts is obviously diametrically opposed to Arendt�s idea of a self-contained politics. This paper argues that the reason why Arendt did not intervene directly in this debate is that she was mainly concerned with deconstructing the more encompassing claim that politics requires a force external to it, the origins of which she traces back to Plato�s attempt to transform political action into a mode of fabrication. It will be shown that the main target of...
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Recent years have seen a growing interest in the relationship between religion and politics. The ... more Recent years have seen a growing interest in the relationship between religion and politics. The confidence liberal democracy gained after the collapse of communism soon suffered a serious blow following the resurgence of various religious movements reclaiming their rightful place in the public sphere or even openly declaring their hostility to the secular order. This rather unexpected return of the religious on the political scene urged scholars to seriously reconsider the dominant Enlightenment view that the forces unleashed by modernity will eventually totally deprive religion of its authority in public matters. In particular, the question was raised whether it is possible at all to imagine a politics that would not find its legitimacy in a transcendent absolute. Much of this scholarly debate has been framed in terms of what is called “political theology,” a term of ancient lineage, but the main outlines of which are usually traced back to a fierce debate among intellectuals in W...
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