A Posthuman Nietzsche?

Abstract

Through a close analysis of what Nietzsche, in The Gay Science, designates as the “four errors” of humanity, this chapter proposes to rethink the theory of the “three axes of anthropocentrism” as a bifurcation: on the one hand the superhuman, also intended as a conceptual ancestor of what we now call the transhuman; and the posthuman on the other, as the philosophical figure of humanity in its post-anthropocentric designation, here defended on the grounds of its theoretical assumptions and practical implications.