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The History of Transhumanism (cont.)

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In an article entitled 'The History of Transhumanism', published in Notes & Queries in July 2015, Peter Harrison and Joseph Wolyniak rightly point out a common error found in standard academic articles and on the Internet-particularly Wikipedia, which cites these academic sources in good faith-according to which the word transhumanism was 'invented' by Julian Huxley in 1957 (or even in 1927, certain sources claim). Referring to the use of the term by the Canadian essayist W. D. Lighthall (1857-1954)-who evokes 'St Paul's transhumanism'-the authors draw a connection between this religious use of the term (transhumanism as man's capacity to transcend the human condition in his encounter with God) and Dante's use of the term in The Divine Comedy (through the Italian verb he coined, trasumanar, which Carey, the English translator of Dante, translated in 1814 as transhuman change).
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halshs-03314685 , version 1 (05-08-2021)

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Olivier Dard, Alexandre Moatti. The History of Transhumanism (cont.). Notes and Queries, 2017, 64 (1), pp.167-170. ⟨10.1093/notesj/gjw256⟩. ⟨halshs-03314685⟩
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