Introduction To the Dossier: Anthropocene, Materialisms, and New Humanisms: Challenges for Philosophical Anthropology

Abstract

Is it possible to conceive of new forms of humanism, or are we effectively facing post-human positions, stages, or conditions? How is the post conceived in this sense? Is it not rather a critique of classical humanism as conceived in Eurocentric Western modernity and, as such, under a patriarchal, colonial, and racist order? Is it possible to conceive of other ways of understanding the human in harmony with nature and even as part of it, as proposed by many Andean worldviews? Can we then become in other ways, thinking about what is currently postulated within the fields of complexity and interdisciplinarity, which imply a more comprehensive vision of the human and its environment, not exclusively dualistic? These are some of the discussions that we consider essential to open in the current debates in philosophical anthropology.