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Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie

The Penguin Podcast

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Humanism and Disability

I'm really interested in the idea about, and we just touched on it then, actually, that humanism has to contain both universality and diversity. I think twice, actually, you touch on it briefly towards the beginning and then towards the end in more detail,. That actually you need both, especially in relation to disability rights, which you also write about. And you're right near the end of the book about post-humanists, and they look forward to a time when humans kind of died outReally, and then transhumanists who want us to accelerate towards technology are fascinated by those groups of people. What do you read before bed? Do you tend to read books about human

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