Article ID: CBB001214381

Heidegger's Influence on Posthumanism: The Destruction of Metaphysics, Technology and the Overcoming of Anthropocentrism (2014)

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While Jacques Derrida's influence on posthumanist theory is well established in the literature, given Martin Heidegger's influence on Derrida, it is surprising to find that Heidegger's relationship to posthumanist theory has been largely ignored. This article starts to fill this lacuna by showing that Heidegger's writings not only influences but also has much to teach posthumanism, especially regarding the relationship between humanism and posthumanism. By first engaging with Heidegger's destruction of metaphysics and related critique of anthropocentrism, I show that, while rejecting Heidegger's conclusions for being too humanist, posthumanism shares, and indeed is largely unreflectively defined by, Heidegger's critique of the binary logic underpinning anthropocentric humanism. With this, posthumanism aims to go beyond Heidegger by overcoming all forms of humanist understanding, an attempt that brings us back to the relationship between humanism and posthumanism and Heidegger's notion of trace. With this, I not only show that Heidegger influences posthumanism through his destruction of metaphysics, critique of anthropocentrism and notion of trace, but also point towards an understanding of posthumanism that distinguishes it from humanism and transhumanism. anthropocentrism Martin Heidegger metaphysics posthumanism trace

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Authors & Contributors
Kōichirō Kokubun
Walsh, Rebecca
Juan Felipe Guevara-Aristizábal
Botin, Lars
Ekeberg, Bjorn
Vagt, Christina
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of technology
Metaphysics
Technology
History of philosophy of science
Philosophy
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Japan
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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