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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Technology, Utopianism and Eschatology -- Imagined Technological Futures -- Transitional and Transhumanist Visions -- Part I: Technological Imaginations -- Part II: Ethics and Politics of Envisioned Futures -- Part III: Trans/posthumanism in Context -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Technological Imaginations -- 1 What Does the Debate on (Post)human Futures Tell Us? Methodology of Hermeneutical Analysis and Vision Assessment -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 The Debate on (Post)human Futures in the Light of the TA Experience -- 2.1 The Need for Orientation in the Field of Human Enhancement -- 2.2 Impact orientation of technology assessment -- 2.3 The Debate on (Post)human Futures-beyond the Scope of TA -- 3 Visionary Futures as Social Constructs -- 4 Toward Hermeneutical Futures Analysis -- 5 What Does the Debate on Posthuman Futures Tell Us? -- References -- 2 Manifestations of the Posthuman in the Postsecular Imagination -- Have We Ever Been Human? -- The Posthuman Condition, or Being Human Has Never Come Naturally -- Have We Ever Been Modern? -- The Crossed-Out God: The Paradoxes of Postsecular Society -- Have We Ever Been Secular? -- Posthumanism, Transcendence, and the Sacred -- Postsecular Posthumanisms -- Conclusion: Human, Nonhuman, and More-Than-Human -- References -- 3 Perfecting the Human: Posthuman Imaginaries and Technologies of Reason -- Imaginaries of High-Modernism -- Fractures in the Frame of Development -- Theorizing Posthumanism -- Postmodern Posthumanism -- References -- 4 Heidegger on Techno-Posthumanism Revolt against Finitude, or Doing What Comes "Naturally"? -- Transcendent Man, a Film -- Heidegger on Techno-Posthumanism -- Preparing the Humans Needed to Take Command of the Planet.