Wagner was a nasty guy who transcended himself in his works.
You see Bresson transcending himself in "A Man Escaped," and in "Lancelot of the Lake" you see, God help him, his personality.
Julian Huxley, the brother of Aldous, coined the term in a 1927 book called "Religion Without Revelation," in which he wrote that transhumanism was "man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature".
"Transhumanism" (a brave new word) was defined in 1957 by Aldous Huxley's biologist brother Julian Huxley as "man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his 'human nature.' " The Transhumanist movement was formalized by a group of futurist artists, scientists and philosophers in the 1980s.
Hume thinks that Newton's life reveals a man with genuine limitations in understanding (let alone transcending) himself and his times.
Transhumanism, in its original definition offered by Julian Huxley in 1957 – "man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature" [41] – is here definitely thrown out the window to be replaced with one beyond the transitional period, because the former is still oriented toward that which it resists.
But prizing and praising a certain notion of loyalty among professional athletes risks ignoring the financial realities of sports, which no player can transcend: Duncan himself, in the early two-thousands, nearly bolted for the Orlando Magic.
People in the Playboy company talk a lot about the "brand," a sort of emanation from the magazine that they believe has in some ways transcended Hef himself.
He is, or was, so mega, so money, that he transcended even himself.
The project offered Mr. Salerno, now 40, the chance to reinvent himself and transcend his Hollywood reputation as a writer of noisy action-oriented fare and of more sophisticated scripts that were never produced.
