Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 Precautionary and Proactionary as the Twenty-first-century's Defining Ideological Polarity; 1 Recalling the political theology of the old Right-Left divide; 2 Right vs. Left as a contest over the past to determine the future; 3 Precautionary and proactionary as the new polar principles; 4 Conclusion: Marking the rotation of the ideological axis; 2 Proactionary Theology: Discovering the Art of God-Playing; 1 Introduction: The biblical roots of playing God; 2 Theomimesis in the modern sacred and secular imaginations

3 The four theological principles underwriting theomimesis4 Conclusion: The four styles of playing God in today's world; 3 Proactionary Biology: Recovering the Science of Eugenics; 1 Transhumanism as Eugenics 2.0; 2 Recovering biology's lost potential as a science of social progress; 3 Against the 'wisdom of nature': Why transhumanists need to get over Darwin; 4 Eugenics as a productive development of evolutionary theory; 4 A Legal and Political Framework for the Proactionary Principle; 1 The current legal standing of the precautionary and proactionary principles

2 The proactionary vision of science as the moral equivalent of war3 'Hedgenetics' as an example of a proactionary socio-legal regime; The Proactionary Manifesto; Legislation and Cases; Bibliography; Index

The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.