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In literary and critical theory, posthumanism or post-humanism, meaning beyond humanism, is a major European continental philosophy of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It strives to move beyond the ideas and images of the world of Renaissance humanism to correspond more closely to the 21st century's concepts of technoscientific knowledge.

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  • In literary and critical theory, posthumanism or post-humanism, meaning beyond humanism, is a major European continental philosophy of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It strives to move beyond the ideas and images of the world of Renaissance humanism to correspond more closely to the 21st century's concepts of technoscientific knowledge.
  • Anyone who recognises anything beyond the human in intelligence or at least capacities. The distinction from transhumanism is not clear. Although transhumanism refer to what is before the human and goes through it but posthumanism particularly what is after the human. This of course depends on definition of what human is. Is it the same as Man? Or something lower? Since human refers especially to the earthly, some have argued for the latter. [Who has?] It has been argued we are already posthumans as cyborgs.
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  • In literary and critical theory, posthumanism or post-humanism, meaning beyond humanism, is a major European continental philosophy of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It strives to move beyond the ideas and images of the world of Renaissance humanism to correspond more closely to the 21st century's concepts of technoscientific knowledge.
  • Anyone who recognises anything beyond the human in intelligence or at least capacities. The distinction from transhumanism is not clear. Although transhumanism refer to what is before the human and goes through it but posthumanism particularly what is after the human. This of course depends on definition of what human is. Is it the same as Man? Or something lower? Since human refers especially to the earthly, some have argued for the latter. [Who has?] It has been argued we are already posthumans as cyborgs.
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