understanding of what it is that is actually threatened" by the new technologies. Otherwise, the question of what it means to be human will be "permanently foreclosed" for human beings, because it will have been already "decided by scientific experts and market forces, and a certain tendency of our liberal culture to favour anything that increases the freedom of choice of individuals." Kompridis therefore proposes an inter-disciplinary "counter science of the human" to provide alternatives to naturalistic assumptions about identity, which predominate in the natural sciences, and which work in concert with the wider culture of individualism to erode, and preclude, other understandings of what it means to be human. This counter science would take as its two main starting points: The concept of the person, underpinned not by consciousness, but by a definition based on the things that human beings care about in peculiarly human ways; and The phenomenon of intercorporeality, the way in which human beings develop the ability to learn, act and make sense of things under conditions of embodiment in a social context. This approach is intended to complement and build upon the work of other philosophers, including Harry Frankfurt, Charles Taylor and Maurice Merlau-Ponty. Books Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future. 2006. Cambridge: MIT Press, 337 pp. (, ) Philosophical Romanticism (ed.) 2006. London: Routledge, 304 pp. (, ) The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (ed.) 2014. New York, London: Bloomsbury, 320 pp. (, ) References External links "The Right to the Human Condition: Arendt, Normativity, and Utopian Politics" (video). Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture. June 11, 2014. "Secularism, Public Reason and the Limits of Translation" (video). Ryerson University, Toronto. June 6, 2012. "Music and Philosophy after Modernism". Conversation with composer Martin Bresnick, with performances by pianist Lisa Moore. ABC Radio. June 1, 2012. “Secular Criticism as Poetics and Politics”. Three lectures by Stathis Gourgouris, including responses by Kompridis. University of Western Sydney. May 21, 23 & 25, 2012. "A Politics of Receptivity". Special issue of Ethics and Global Politics, Vol 4, No 4 (2011). Edited & with contributions by Kompridis. Biodiversity and the Arts: "The memory of loss" (video). Australian Museum, Sydney. Sept. 11, 2010. "Technology's Challenge to Democracy: What of the human?" (PDF). Parrhesia, No. 8, 2009. "Reason, Reflective Disclosure and Democratic Politics" (audio). Macquarie University. December 9, 2008. "Romanticism and Reanimation" (audio). University of Tasmania. December 8, 2008.