الفهرس 
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Abstract
Though occupied by the same project of displacement, posthumanism is seen as a radical break from post and pre-war assumptions of human centrality and solipsistic supremacy. As an academic trend, its very essence gestures towards liberating humans from biological constraints and creating new pathways for self-creation. It mainly seeks to eliminate ontological dualism and provide alternative ways of perceiving personhood.
Chapter one, therefore, attempts to provide a close examination of posthumanism as an accurate depiction of our contemporary era and expose main differences between posthumanism and other post-war movements, namely-Trans and Anti-humanism. Practically, the primary intent of this thesis is to address rising socio-ethical dilemmas that would result from expanding agency and seeking equal subject positions. A towering figure in this respect, Dan Brown in his thriller narratives accentuates certain doomsday scenarios and highlights an urgent need for effective regulations and preventive ethics. .
Evaluating in a balanced manner some of those dilemmas, this thesis attempts a critical reading of three of Dan Brown’s novels, namely-Digital Fortress (1998), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). Though Origin is Brown’s last published novel, it is important for this thesis to begin with exposing the difficulty of determining how ethical responsibility would be distributed in a posthuman era which is the main theme of Origin. It is practically the first dilemma that chapter two attempts to bring to the surface before turning to other prominent socio-ethical dilemmas including ethical ambiguity and cyberspace morality which are chronologically displayed in chapters three and four.