Toward A Posthuman Humanism: Serresian Federative Humanism between Natural Contract and Political Ecology

Authors: Rignani O*

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000114

Volume 2, Issue 1

Abstract

Intended as a step of a general attempt to grasp further philosophical meanings/implications of the posthuman galaxy, which without much doubt still deserves many insights, this article argues the case for a posthuman humanism. Moving from the consideration that emerging ideas within the posthuman debate as crucial-i.e. openness and nonexhaustiveness, interrogation on borders recalling the urgency of the rethinking overall of the human even before the setting of prefixes denoting overshoots-can be traced/identified in Michel Serres’s philosophy/anthropology of hominescence, the article heuristically engages a philosophical comparison/dialogue with what Serres calls objective dimension of hominescence, that’s to say new human’s links to the world that precisely point to a new humanism, federative of nature and culture. Through analyzing Serresian theming of this anthropological shift and its cogency of the signing of a symbiotic human-natural contract in the context of a so-called political ecology, the article reads them as a germinal nucleus of a posthuman humanism. So that by leveraging on such theoretical foundations it makes the case of a federative, hybrid, anthropo-decentrist, decentralized, finally authentic humanism, which can represent the post- of any anthropocentric, exclusivist, essentialist humanism; in other words, a posthuman humanism.

Keywords: Federative Humanism; Michel Serres; Natural Contract; Political Ecology; Posthuman Humanism

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