The Malady of UNESCO’s Archive

The Malady of UNESCO’s Archive

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This paper offers a critical examination of UNESCO’s cultural heritage conventions with special regard to the declared transhumanism of the organization’s first director-general, Sir Julian Huxley. While Huxley’s advocation of eugenics is a well-established fact, this part of his intellectual herit...

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Main Author: Peter Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2014-10-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Subjects:
ultural heritage
Eugenics
Julian Huxley
Transhumanism
UNESCO
Voyager spacecrafts
Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2126
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Summary:This paper offers a critical examination of UNESCO’s cultural heritage conventions with special regard to the declared transhumanism of the organization’s first director-general, Sir Julian Huxley. While Huxley’s advocation of eugenics is a well-established fact, this part of his intellectual heritage is usually not considered overtly aligned to his ideas about cultural preservation. On closer consideration, however, improvement and preservation (both cultural and biological) turn out to be closely associated concerns in the field of Huxley’s intellectual vision.
ISSN:2000-1525

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