author: Denys Fen
Relevance of the research. The beginning of the twenty-first century has been marked by radical transformations in the modes of human existence driven by the accelerated development of technologies, including bioengineering and genetic engineering. These changes have prompted a reconsideration of established conceptions of human nature, corporeality, and the place of the human being within a technologized world. In contemporary philosophical discourse, an increasingly evident shift can be observed from an anthropocentric paradigm toward posthumanist thinking, within which the human body appears not as a given, but as a project — an open field for technological intervention and modification. In this context, the question arises whether human corporeality retains its ontological significance in the age of technological totality. Such a perspective challenges the traditional foundations of humanism, particularly the notions of autonomy, uniqueness, and inviolability of the human form of life as Homo sapiens. It also raises the issue of whether techno-humanism (Y. N. Harari) represents an attempt of humanity to escape from itself. This problem is critically addressed through the principle of Anteism, which emphasizes the rootedness of the human being in earthly existence and affirms the irreplaceability of embodied experience as a condition of authentic human presence in the world.
Problem statement. Anteism in this study is interpreted as a philosophy of human rootedness in the natural environment, which understands corporeality as the primary foundation of human being and its connection with the world. The application of the principle of Anteism as a philosophy of rootedness makes it possible to critically reassess posthumanist discourse, which tends to conceptualize the human being outside its natural foundation. In other words, Anteism proposes a philosophical path toward overcoming alienation from the Earth by restoring the body to its primary status as a mode of presence, interaction, and ontological dependence on the world. The renewed connection with nature and the Earth re-situates human corporeality within the horizon of the world to which it essentially belongs.
Analysis of recent research and publications. One of the key issues shaping philosophical reflection at the beginning of the new millennium has been the problem of the essence of humanism and the reconsideration of human existence under conditions of technological transformation. It has become evident that the early modern European narrative, which proclaimed the human being as the “measure of all things,” not only reinforced the illusion of human autonomy and omnipotence but also intensified the contradictions surrounding the very mode of human being. In particular, this concerns the progressive blurring of the boundary between the natural and the technical. Among the scholars who conceptualize the human condition within the framework of postmodernity and posthumanist thought are Rosi Braidotti, Bruno Latour, Martha Nussbaum, Yuval Noah Harari, N. Katherine Hayles, Francis Fukuyama, among others. In Ukrainian philosophical discourse, the issue of corporeality in its various modalities has been addressed by such researchers as O. Brovko, L. Hazniuk, O. Homilko, O. Verbytska, O. Dolska, I. Kobzieva, V. Lukianets, and O. Sobol, among others.
Research task. The purpose of the article is to provide a philosophical and anthropological interpretation of the transformations of human corporeality within the context of posthumanist modernity and to substantiate Anteism as a practice of ontological rootedness that resists the reduction of the bodily dimension of the human being to a technical construct or an economic resource. The stated purpose determines the following research objectives: first, to analyze contemporary approaches to the interpretation of corporeality within posthumanist discourse; second, to articulate the ontological dimension of corporeality as a mode of human being-in-the-world; third, to substantiate the potential of Anteism as a principle of ontological rootedness of the human being in the world.
Main material presentation. Transhumanist and posthumanist discourse, which emerged in the late twentieth century, brought to the forefront the issue of enhancing human corporeality and increasing its technological efficiency. However, in doing so, it intensified the ontological rupture between the human being and nature, thereby undermining the very foundations of the humanist paradigm. Technological modernity creates the risk of displacing the principle of Anteism as a mode of the “human–nature” relation and replacing it with a new narrative centered on the “human–technology” nexus. Within this emerging framework, human corporeality is increasingly interpreted as a project subject to technological optimization rather than as the primary ground of human being, which reactivates the question of the existential bond between the human being and the natural world. The principle of Anteism emphasizes the intrinsic connection between the human being and nature, affirming human rootedness in the ontological order of the natural world.Such an approach allows corporeality to be understood not as a set of biotechnological capacities, but as a phenomenon of existential involvement in the world. This, in turn, substantiates the need for the formation of an anteistic worldview as a foundation for the preservation of the human being and its mode of existence. In this context, corporeality appears as the basis for safeguarding human selfhood, in contrast to its interpretation as a temporary construct shaped by technological transformations.
Conclusions. Posthumanist discourse reveals the ambivalence of the contemporary condition: on the one hand, there is an effort to justify the significance of technological enhancement of the body as a means of expanding human capacities; on the other hand, there is a growing sense of the loss of an objective natural foundation of human existence. Consequently, within the figure of the posthuman, corporeality appears not as a rooted form of life but as a mutable configuration open to modification or replacement. Such a shift foregrounds the question of the ontological significance of corporeality for the human being. In contrast, Anteism redirects attention to the fundamental bond between the body and nature, to the Earth as a source of vital force and ontological determination. From this perspective, preserving corporeality as rootedness within the space of the Earth makes it possible to prevent the loss of anthropological integrity and to safeguard human nature under conditions of technological acceleration. Strengthening the idea of the human–nature connection thus emerges as a response to contemporary technological pressure and as an orientation toward the preservation of the human being as such.
Key words: human being, corporeality, posthumanism, nature, technologies, Anteism, ontological rootedness.
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