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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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Krasicki, J. Posthumanism and Russian Religious Thought. Studies in East European Thought 54, 125–143 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013801901739
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