WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT POST‐HUMANISM? A CRITICAL NOTE |
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| Authors: | Bo Allesøe Christensen |
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| Institution: | Department of Agroecology and Environment, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, , DK‐8830 Tjele Denmark |
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| Abstract: | What is disclosed in the questioning of the human being in post‐humanism? Addressing this question in congruence with Heidegger's questioning of being in Being and Time, we end up with two discoveries: first, that the characteristic of Dasein, as the being of the questioning, already carries the same implications as the post‐human figure, and second, that questioning in this sense is indicative of the effort of realizing anew scientific space for conceptualizing the human being as non‐substantialist. Conceived of in this way, however, post‐humanism is a result of a very human effort indeed. |
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| Keywords: | post‐humanism Martin Heidegger question of being responsive responsibility |
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