M. David Litwa (Melbourne Australian Catholic University)

Broschiertes Buch

Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought

Beschreibung

Investigates posthuman transformation (becoming angels and demons) among poets, philosophers, and theologians of the ancient Mediterranean world. Brings together Hellenic, Jewish, Christian, and gnostic authors, and connects their visions of moral transformation to modern transhumanist visions of biotechnical enhancement.

Autor

M. David Litwa is Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. His publications include Iesus Deus (2014), Desiring Divinity (2016), Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction (Cambridge, 2018) and How the Gospels Became History (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781108926058
• ISBN-10: 1108926053
• Artikelnr.: 63460423