New Publication in the “Technosophy” Book Series
Humanism in the Age of AI: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Social Critique has now been published!
Ana Ilievska’s edited volume on Humanism in the Age of AI: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Social Critique (transcript Verlag, 2026) explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to speak of »the human« today, when it is increasingly invoked in the design, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence? This interdisciplinary volume attempts to rethink humanism. Across ethics, aesthetics, and social critique, the contributors explore agency and responsibility, freedom and labor, embodiment and cognition, practical wisdom, love and reciprocity, and the ways algorithmic systems reorganize meaning and worldhood. Humanism emerges not as a doctrine or defense of human exceptionality, but as a critical practice of care for a shared world under conditions of technological abstraction.
This volume includes article contributions by Pasquale Terraciano (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Paolo Pellecchia (Francisco de Vitoria University), Marco Russo (University of Salerno), Christos Kalpakidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Oliver Braganza (University of Bonn), Johannes Schultz (University of Bonn), Ginevra Latini (Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples), Andrea Sartori (Nankai University), Serge Goriely (University of Louvain), Abhiruchi Ojha (MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamie Millia Islamia), Leslie Keerthi Kumar SM (Lady Shri Ram College), and Michael J. Thate (Princeton University/George Washington University), as well as a Preface by Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn), an Afterword by Robert Pogue Harrison (Stanford University), an Introduction by Ana Ilievska (American University of Beirut-Mediterraneo) and an Overview by Christiane Schäfer (University of Bonn).
Humanism in the Age of AI can now be accessed electronically and can be downloaded, open access, here. The print edition will be out by the end of the month and can be pre-ordered through the same link.
