Beyond the human. 
Notes on a post-anthropocentric problem of location Cover Image

Przekroczyć człowieka. Uwagi o postantropocentrycznym problemie umiejscowienia
Beyond the human. Notes on a post-anthropocentric problem of location

Author(s): Miłosz Markiewicz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
Published by: Instytut Nauk o Kulturze i Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych - Wydział Filologiczny - Uniwersytet Śląski
Keywords: posthumanism; post-anthropocentrism; place; space

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to consider a place for a subject in perspective of post-anthropocentric point of view. Post-anthropocentrism is a heavyweight issue of the posthumanism, a critical theory, which is based on rejection of human domination over the world and which considers human as a part of life-itself. However, is human capable of rejecting the anthropocentric point of view? Is overstepping the Anthropos even possible? What we can do to not allow the post-anthropocentrism become one of anthropocentric instruments of power? Author tries to answer these questions referring to feminist critical theories - Adrienne Rich's politics of location and Donna Haraway's situated knowledge. It seems that, the proper question is rather, could human beings become a part of life-itself, remaining themselves in the same time.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 110-120
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish