El olvido de la retórica en el posthumanismo heideggeriano

Abstract

Posthumanism is based on the premise that there are several key points at which obsolete humanism must be superseded. Authors such as Peter Sloterdijk have updated the critique that Martin Heidegger levelled at humanism in his well-known Letter to Jean Beaufret. But the thinker who dealt with the forgetting of being forgot to consider the non-platonic and Southern current of humanism: the idea of humanist and democratic rhetoric. In this fashion posthumanism could offer interesting proposals, while starting from a rather less-than-innocent conceptual deficit, and forgetting the implications of its assumption of certain aspects of Gothic thought. In contrast, and against the idea of the tabula rasa, in this study we invite the reader to join us in re-examining Rhetoric as a democratic means of facing current problems in politics.