Philosophical and Cultural Aspects of Transhumanism and Posthumanism - Future Human Image

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by Roman Sapenko¹ and Bogdan Trocha²
¹ University of Zielona Góra (Zielona Góra, Poland)
² University of Zielona Góra (Zielona Góra, Poland)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/14/8
Received: 1 August 2020 / Accepted: 5 September 2020 / Published: 3 November 2020

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Abstract

The article discusses the mechanisms of improving the human organism presented in past centuries’ culture and analogous phenomena present in contemporary cultural texts. On this basis, theoretical and speculative aspects of posthumanism and transhumanism are described, their literary realizations, and finally, their cultural consequences are presented. Ideas, movements and ideologies, or even philosophies of posthumanism and transhumanism, although affecting the common problematic area, still cause confusion because of their mutual confusion with each other. The article tries to find arguments for the position that posthumanism and transhumanism stand in one house, but the latter is less suitable for understanding the radically changing world that we experience in such a painful way.

Keywords: ancient myth, enhancement of human, a history of culture, posthumanism, transhumanism, popular culture

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Sapenko, Roman and Bogdan Trocha (2020) Philosophical and Cultural Aspects of Transhumanism and Posthumanism. Future Human Image, Volume 14, 64-72. https://doi.org/10.29202/fhi/14/8

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