Edition: 2024
Pages: 440
Series: IR/L
ISBN: 9788858134115

Doc-humanity

Maurizio Ferraris

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The definitive book by Maurizio Ferraris.
Dochumanity discusses the past and present in order to illustrate the future that awaits us, a future that is much happier and far more human than the nihilists of modernity ever thought possible.

In reply to the question "Who are we?," Ferraris analyzes the web before the web even existed, tracing a new vision of man as a being that is not alienated but revealed by technology, from the first piece of chipped flint to the cell phone. To answer the question "Where do we come from?” he relies on a vast metaphysical fresco that illustrates the powers of recording and documentation, which have hitherto been hidden and which have become apparent since the advent of the web. And finally, in reply to the question "Where are we going?" Ferraris illustrates the world that awaits us, which is not in decline, but which holds progress. What awaits us is not an unhappy degrowth caused by viruses and technology, but - if we manage to understand and transform the present - a new welfare, one that entrusts machines with the jobs that are tiring, boring, and repetitive, and humans with the act of inventing, consuming, and educating. Because it is not true, and nor has it ever been, that we are slaves to machines: we have always been their masters, though perhaps reluctantly, because we can imagine humans without the web (us, up until a few decades ago) and not the web without humans. Who will pay for such a desirable future, one that is so within reach? The answer lies in the book.

The author

Maurizio Ferraris

Maurizio Ferraris isone of the most well-known Italian philosophers. He teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin and he is president of Labont (Centre for Ontology). He directs ‘Scienza Nuova’, the institute of advanced studies that unites the University and the Polytechnic of Turin in the design of a sustainable future. Visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, Munich, Paris, columnist for “Corriere della Sera” and “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, author of successful tv programmes and over sixty books translated worldwide, he is the founder of the “New Realism”. Among his publications for Laterza: Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce (2009); Mobilitazione totale (2015); Documanità. Filosofia del mondo nuovo (2021); Manifesto del nuovo realismo (n.e. 2022) and, with Guido Saracco, Tecnosofia. Tecnologia e umanesimo per una scienza nuova (2023).

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