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Posthumanism and Russian religious thought

Jan Krasicki

pp. 125-143

Abstract

I argue that one of the centralaspects characterizing the philosophicalhorizon at the threshhold of the twentieth andtwenty-first centuries is the erosion of thehumanist idea, i.e. `posthumanism'. Russianreligious philosophy is pervaded byconsiderations of humanism and posthumanism(antihumanism). The latter ascribes centralsignificance to the category of `Godmanhood'with which the leading Russian philosophersopposed the Nietzschean category of theOverman. But all of Germany philosophy can bereproached for having forsaken man. The`posthumanist' narrative about man and God isan extreme, indeed pathological symptom ofphilosophy waiting for Embodiment.

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(2002) Studies in East European Thought 54 (1-2).

Pages: 125-143

DOI: 10.1023/A:1013801901739

Full citation:

Krasicki Jan (2002) „Posthumanism and Russian religious thought“. Studies in East European Thought 54 (1-2), 125–143.