Post-Human, Too Post-Human

In 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche published the essay "Human, All Too Human," where he criticized religion and morality, viewing them not as sources of higher truth but as a psychological phenomenon, a reflection of our fear of suffering and death—something not divine but, on the contrary, the most natural for humans. Unbearably human. The dream of overcoming death has existed as long as culture itself—human consciousness can accept anything except the fact of its own finitude.

But what if it’s not required at all? What if the evolution of our species has only just begun? What if death is, in fact, not natural? What if humans shouldn’t suffer, and the fear permeating all human culture was merely a temporary inconvenience?

Philosopher Maria Ivanchenko conducts a captivating investigation into contemporary concepts of transhumanism to show what the society of the future looks like, what the ethics of super-technologies are, what the ideology of eternity is, why immortality simultaneously beckons and frightens, whether there is a category of morality in endless existence, and what models exist for transitioning from humanity to post-humanity.