The paper calls attention to growing importance of biotechnology for power over life and body and analyze it as a contemporary biopolitical strategy. Biotechnology is comprehended as a political technology investing in the body, improving its qualities, prolonging youth, taking care of health and reproduction. In such sense it preserves or protects life by helping to improve health, enriching the quality of life and enabling active aging. The paper will focus especially on regenerative medicine as the knowledge-power opening a new horizon for bio-power.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 512768384The question “How much is enough?” is referring on the one side to the human as a being of needs (sharing of benefits), on the other hand to the humans – men and women – as immediate moulders of society. The society is not the condition for the activity but its consequence. The German hardly translatable word ‘umlernen’ means that we have not only to learn anew but also to leave with our whole life the environment of needs which do not satisfy humans as humans, men and women. In my contribution I am asking: Is the area of higher education ready for transformative learning? namely in terms of the sentence of Marvin Minsky: “The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves” (The society of mind, p. 288).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2172883This paper is cocerned both with stereotypical religion-determined pattern of femininity and masculinity and with the examination of the perception of nature and of the man-nature relationship which is deeply marked by the collective memory of man’s domination over nature. The stereotype of man’s superiority in relation to nature remains deeply rooted in the collective consciousness. In this segment the eco-feminist theology and its ethics is of utmost importance, as it discloses and breaks down the prejudice of the model of human superiority over nature by means of a critical historical overview of individual religious traditions.
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