Postmodern revision of traditional corporality

The article examines modern alternatives to classical humanism in terms of conceptions of the human corporality. The authors analyze the interpretation of human corporality in the philosophy of postmodernism. The concept of «body without organs», developed by E. Deleuze, J. Baudrillard and F. Guattari, is considered. The essence of postmodern body philosophy boils down to three points: devaluation of the body, deconstruction of the body, and egoistic bodily narcissism. Transhumanism is seen as a radical, dehumanistic in essence and neo-humanistic in form ideology, generated by the successes of modern scientific and technological development. The practical goals of transhumanism are the scientific and technological alienation of the human body from consciousness, the replacement of the physical body with an artificial one, and the integration of individual consciousness alienated from the physical body into the network structure of collective consciousness. The authors argue that postmodernist and transhumanist philosophies of the body reflect the fundamental antinomy of individual sociocultural existence in the modern information society. In postmodern society, dehumanistic deconstruction and depersonification of individual and social corporality takes place. Militant alienated artificial corporeality is actively attacking the natural physicality of man, seeking first to deform and subdue it under the guise of good intentions to improve human nature, and then to replace it, to destroy it.