Transhumanismus by Stefan L. Sorgner and Phillip von Becker

One might accept the following premise: In the production of a cultural object, nothing is accidental in its final presentation. This premise assumes that behind every cultural production—films, books, musical works, among others—there is an intention to dominate and impose an idiosyncratic perspective on it. If this is the case, then in Transhumanismus by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Phillip Becker, we find the confrontation of two positions that can hardly be reconciled. Just look at the book’s cover, and you will notice that in German it says “Streitfrage” [dispute]. I don’t know if this was a conscious decision by the publisher—I will assume it was—but this gesture already exemplifies the imposition of perspective by the writer of this review. What is interesting is that this word resonates with “Streitschrift” [polemic], which also appears in the subtitle of Nietzsche’s Zur Genealogie der Moral [On the Genealogy of...