ISSN: 2641-9130
Authors: Rignani O*
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
