Thinking, Writing, and Living in a Postmetaphysical Age: Gray, Rorty, Sloterdijk, Vattimo (original) (raw)

How to make sense of what’s after human? How to conceive of a post-human existence when we are still Allzumenschliches (“All too human”), when the old certainties are gone, and new ones are not at sight? The lead question of this event presupposes another one, which precedes it: what’s after the end of metaphysics as personified in the figure of God? To make sense of what’s to come Nach dem Menschen (“after Man”), we need first to make sense of what’s after God, Nach Gott (the title of a recent book by Sloterdijk). What follows is a reflection on the challenges facing us as inhabitants of an ever more complex, technologically-driven world. It’s divided in 2 propositions, based on 2 pairs of philosophers: first, John Gray and Sloterdijk, and concluding with Vattimo and Rorty.