| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- Foreword to the English Edition -- A Who is Who? of Post- and Transhumanism -- 1. Virtuality, Media, and Immortality. An Introduction -- Part I Humans and Media -- 2. Virtuality -- 2.1 Virtuality and Time -- 2.2 Virtuality and Space -- 2.3 Virtuality and Corporeality -- 2.4 Virtuality, Reality, and the Imaginary -- 3. Promethean Shame -- 3.1 Human Beings and Technology in the Work of Günther Anders -- 3.2 Virtuality and Death -- Part II Technological Posthumanism -- 4. Transhumanism -- 4.1 Post- and Transhumanism -- 4.2 Intellectual Predecessors and the Transhuman -- 4.3 Early Transhumanism: Ettinger, FM-2030, Leary -- 4.4 The Extropy Institute and the (Vita-)Mores -- 4.5 The World Transhumanist Association / humanity+ -- 4.6 Other Actors and Institutions -- 4.7 Religious and Spiritual Transhumanism -- 4.8 Conclusion -- 5. Technological Posthumanism -- 5.1 The Posthuman and Posthumanism -- 5.2 The Face of Posthumanism -- Frank Tipler -- Marvin Minsky -- Hans Moravec -- Ray Kurzweil -- 5.3 Posthumanism and Art -- 6. A History of Technological Posthumanism -- 6.1 Writing the "History of the Future" -- 6.2 How We Became Posthuman -- L'Homme Machine -- Simulation and Identity -- The Cybernetic Paradigm -- The Measure of Perfection: Work and Knowledge -- 6.3 Annihilation or Infinite Progress -- Death, Entropy, and the Annihilation of All Life -- The Sacrifice of Humankind -- Progress and Perfectibility -- Evolution and the Emergence of Life -- Frank Tipler's Physico-Theology -- 6.4 Singularities -- Cosmological Singularity and Black Holes -- The Technological Singularity -- The Law of Progress and the Endless Frontier -- 6.5 Immortality -- Posthuman and Immortal -- From Longevity to Computer-Aided Immortalization -- Immortality in Science Fiction -- Cryonics and the Suspension of Death -- Technological Immortality.
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