Explores the relationship between technics and humanity tracing the emergence of a biotechnical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy.From Technological Humanity to Biotechnical Existence can be framed as a metaphysics of the present. It starts from the current epoch an era increasingly marked not only by technology but also by technics in the most general sense and asks how this affects human existence. The book asks what is called technics what is called humanity how these relate to one another and how changes in these notions oblige us to revise the philosophical notion of existence. It investigates how the idea of technological humanityof technology as an extension and instrument of the humanis discovered and deconstructed by Martin Heidegger Helmuth Plessner Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida Bernard Stiegler and Giorgio Agamben. Finally the book presents a new idea of biotechnical existence one that underlies these philosophers works without being fully elaborated. This ideaof technics as a condition of humanity that humans share with other living and technical beingsis the authors own philosophical proposition and the final result of the book.