Philosophical and Cultural Aspects of Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Philosophical and Cultural Aspects of Transhumanism and Posthumanism

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the mechanisms of improving the human organism presented in past centuries’culture and analogous phenomena present in contemporary cultural texts. On this basis, theoretical andspeculative aspects of posthumanism and transhumanism are described, their literary realizations, andfinally, their cultural consequences are presented. Ideas, movements and ideologies, or even philosophiesof posthumanism and transhumanism, although affecting the common problematic area, still causeconfusion because of their mutual confusion with each other. The article tries to find arguments for theposition that posthumanism and transhumanism stand in one house, but the latter is less suitable forunderstanding the radically changing world that we experience in such a painful way

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