Dimitrova S.V., Sergodeeva E.A. Existential Fatigue: The Struggle Between the Human and the “Non-Human”
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2025.3.10
Svetlana V. Dimitrova
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Department of Philosophy and Theory of Law, Volgograd State University
Prosp. Universitetsky, 100, 400062 Volgograd, Russian Federation
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4962-0692
Elena A. Sergodeeva
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Department of Philosophy and Ethnology, North-Caucasus Federal University
Pushkina St, 1, Bld. 20, 355009 Stavropol, Russian Federation
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2076-1988
Abstract. In the conditions of the modern world, people experience an existential crisis, the manifestations of which are fatigue and the unwillingness of the individual to "be a human." "Existential fatigue" is considered a natural stage in the development of the logic of individualism. The orientation of social and personal development to satisfying one's own desires and needs leads to a loss of meaning, in which a person is ready to change the "anthropological essence." A person is tired of him and strives for the inhuman self, which is capable of leading people to immortality. Going beyond the human (transhumanism, posthuman) is based on the denial of the "thesis of human exceptionalism" (Jean-Marie Schaeffer). The task is to explicate the logic of formation, the implementation of which led to the fact that the "success" of the active and cognitive activity of people served as the basis for the denial of "human uniqueness" and led to the need to search for a new subject (transhumanism), which may not be a human. The concept of "non-human" is considered in several aspects – as natural/wild/chaotic and as technical/civilized/regular. The transition from non-human to human was based on overcoming the natural and the wild, and this task was solved in the process of civilizational development. Having recognized that the dignity and power of man is manifested in his conscious actions, people directed their efforts not only to the transformation of external nature, reducing it to the environment, but also to the improvement/construction of internal nature. At the same time, civilizational development, which sets itself the task of managing biological life, leads to the assertion of the non-human. It is concluded that the modern striving for the "non-human" confirms/verifies the assertion that human exclusivity can and should be manifested only in the person's involvement with the divine principle. The rejection of the uniqueness of human existence is a condition for changing the "anthropological essence."
Key words: existential fatigue, anthropological essence, transhumanism, posthuman, "human exceptionalism", "non-human".
Citation. Dimitrova S.V., Sergodeeva E.A. Existential Fatigue: The Struggle Between the Human and the "NonHuman". Logos et Praxis, 2025, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 87-94. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2025.3.10
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