In this chapter, I argue that death can be viewed as a pathway to what may rightfully be called ‘human enhancement’ or even ‘transhumanism’. This argument stems from an exploration of human limits and the potential transcendence thereof. While death is conventionally regarded as the ultimate limitation of human existence, I propose that it might also represent an avenue for transformation and...
Toward the end of the Age of Enlightenment, rationalism’s demise gradually entailed the transcendent God’s demise. In this article, I will draw on the resurfacing of God in the ensuing tradition of the unconscious. Whereas philosophers such as Schopenhauer or Eduard von Hartmann, undermining the alleged rational consciousness, assumed the existence of an impersonal, unconscious, yet collective...