Melancholy of the western thought: person after the "death of God"

In article the destiny of a question «what is a person?» in the modern western philosophy is analyzed. The main tendency is to abandon the idea of the exclusivity of human existence, to deprive person of ontological privileges and to abolish the question of him from philosophy. After the shift of Christianity to the periphery of culture, the conversation about person becomes difficult. However, the author notes that against this trend several anthropological projects are noticeable. They belong to Fukuyama, Habermas and Baudrillard. Analyzing them, the author points to their limits. Fukuyama’s project is biological. He tries to talk about a person in terms of «species-specific behavior». However, he can not find the specifics of person and therefore have to spread the idea of rights to the animal world. Habermas’s project is social. He thinks of the person as derivative of another. Another is the supplier of the image of man, his identity. There is no person outside the social image. Baudrillard is different in that he tries to talk about person in the language of anthropology. He finds the uniqueness of person in his duality. However, the Baudrillard project remains as fragile as the others, for it is hesitant to talk about the ontological basis of this duality.