Politics and human nature
Despite all attempts at restoring it, the great humanist tradition could not resist the double trauma of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in which the very idea of humanity had been swallowed up by its opposite. Yet, beyond the critique of humanism carried out by twentieth-century philosophers such as Heideg...
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I15-R231-article-702021-05-05T19:56:51Z Politics and human nature Política y naturaleza humana Esposito, Roberto posthumanism humanism animality humanity Heidegger humanismo posthumanismo animalidad humanidad Heidegger Despite all attempts at restoring it, the great humanist tradition could not resist the double trauma of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in which the very idea of humanity had been swallowed up by its opposite. Yet, beyond the critique of humanism carried out by twentieth-century philosophers such as Heidegger, the ancient profile of man as essentially humanus delineates itself again. On the other hand, as soon as the Nietzschean anthropo-technical – or biopolitical – vector of artificial intervention into the characteristics of human nature enters into synergy with the Darwinian presupposition about the contiguity with the animal world, the social consequences can be devastating. But is this the only – destructive and self-destructive – face of post-humanism? Is it necessary for it to turn into a form of patent anti-humanism? In opposition to both Heidegger’s foreclosure of biology and the animal as well as the biopolitical misuse of an immunitarian semantics that has led to the most brutal forms of homicidal eugenics, in this article I claim that the overbearing entrance of biological life into socio-political dynamics is not necessarily a danger from which we have to defend ourselves in the name of a self-centred purity of the individual and the species. It might also be regarded as the future of man, a threshold from which he could be stimulated in view of a more complex and open elaboration of his humanitas. A pesar de todos los intentos de restaurarla, la gran tradición humanista no pudo resistir el doble trauma de Auschwitz e Hiroshima, en el que la idea misma de humanidad había sido devorada por su opuesto. Sin embargo, más allá de la crítica al humanismo realizada por filósofos del siglo XX como Heidegger, el antiguo perfil del hombre como esencialmente humanus se delinea nuevamente. Por otra parte, tan pronto como el vector antropotécnico -o biopolítico- nietzscheano de intervención artificial sobre las características de la naturaleza humana entra en sinergia con el supuesto darwinista acerca de la contigüidad con el mundo animal, las consecuencias sociales pueden ser devastadoras. Pero, ¿es ésta la única cara -destructiva y autodestructiva- del posthumanismo? ¿Es necesario que se convierta en una forma de antihumanismo patente? En oposición tanto al rechazo heideggeriano de la biología y del animal, como al mal uso biopolítico de la semántica inmunitaria, que ha llevado a las formas más brutales de eugenesia homicida, en este artículo afirmo que la entrada pujante de la vida biológica en la dinámica sociopolítica no es necesariamente un peligro del que tengamos que defendernos en nombre de una pureza autoreferencial del individuo y la especie. También puede ser comprendida como el futuro del hombre, un umbral desde el cual el hombre puede ser estimulado a emprender una elaboración más compleja y abierta de su humanitas. Escuela de Filosofía. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2020-11-13 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Translations of articles previously unpublished in Spanish Traducciones de artículos inéditos en español application/pdf https://cuadernosfilosoficos.unr.edu.ar/index.php/cf/article/view/70 10.35305/cf2.vi16.70 Cuadernos Filosóficos / Segunda Época; No. 16 (2019) Cuadernos Filosóficos / Segunda Época; Núm. 16 (2019) 2683-9024 1850-3667 spa https://cuadernosfilosoficos.unr.edu.ar/index.php/cf/article/view/70/80 Derechos de autor 2020 Roberto Esposito https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 |
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Despite all attempts at restoring it, the great humanist tradition could not resist the double trauma of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in which the very idea of humanity had been swallowed up by its opposite. Yet, beyond the critique of humanism carried out by twentieth-century philosophers such as Heidegger, the ancient profile of man as essentially humanus delineates itself again. On the other hand, as soon as the Nietzschean anthropo-technical – or biopolitical – vector of artificial intervention into the characteristics of human nature enters into synergy with the Darwinian presupposition about the contiguity with the animal world, the social consequences can be devastating. But is this the only – destructive and self-destructive – face of post-humanism? Is it necessary for it to turn into a form of patent anti-humanism? In opposition to both Heidegger’s foreclosure of biology and the animal as well as the biopolitical misuse of an immunitarian semantics that has led to the most brutal forms of homicidal eugenics, in this article I claim that the overbearing entrance of biological life into socio-political dynamics is not necessarily a danger from which we have to defend ourselves in the name of a self-centred purity of the individual and the species. It might also be regarded as the future of man, a threshold from which he could be stimulated in view of a more complex and open elaboration of his humanitas. |
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