Beyond Humanism: Becoming Cyborgs through Posthumanism by Gavin Rae - Pt1

Gavin Rae is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at The American University of Cairo. The general orientation of his research, broadly understood, focuses on the question of human being as this has been thought throughout the history of post-Kantian philosophy. To this end, his research engages with how different thinkers within the traditions of German Idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, and twentieth-century French philosophy have understood a range of existential issues including alienation, evil, madness, thinking, self-identity, freedom, and the human being’s relationship to thought, technology, religion, and aesthetics. The aim of these encounters is to delineate what, if anything, these thinkers still have to say to us today on these issues, as a precursor to re-thinking these issues and the question of human being in general.

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