Post-Humanism: Academic Theory, Social Utopia or the New Ideology of Political Dominance?

The Post-humanist rethinking of the current social condition put under question many important paradigms of science and technologies. Among them: the humanistic concept of man, anthropocentric vision of nature and history, relations of humanity with other living beings and non-living objects, the role of the new scientific discoveries in radical transformation of humankind regarding its biological form, identity, and future survival. By doing this critical work, different post-humanist, or trans-humanist theorists argues the impact of cognitive sciences, bioethics, artificial intellect, new legal regulations and respective technologies in construction of a new man, family, property, society, and political order, presumably more fair, inclusive, and prosperous. The author put this complex of theories under critical analysis showing the changing place of such components as science, technology, ideology, and political implications of post-humanist movement regarding its impact in the formation of principally new concept of social hierarchy, power and dominance, perhaps, potentially more authoritarian than ever before. Among his important conclusions is the proposal of rationalized humanism notion as theoretical alternative to post-humanism definition.