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Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando

Roberto Manzocco explores the posthuman condition.

To talk about posthumanism we have to go back to a relatively distant past – to the philosophical rift that separated the analytical philosophy of the Anglo-American tradition from the Continental one that has dominated the philosophical culture of Europe. In its constant deconstruction of the basic assumptions of mainstream Western philosophy (from Plato to the 19th Century), modern Continental thinking takes its main inspiration from Nietzsche. From Nietzsche onwards, it has focused on dismantling God, the subject, objectivity or truth, and rationality, in a process of nihilist liquefaction. And although some have tried to counter this process, many more others have decided to adopt the opposite strategy – that is, to accept and indeed try to ‘inhabit’ this nihilistic condition. Philosophical posthumanism can be considered part of this wide philosophical current.

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