Heidegger and Baudrillard on Death, Posthumanity, and the Challenge of Authenticity

• Main Author: Pasco, Marc Oliver D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: authenticity; death; hyperreality; posthuman; Arts and Humanities; Continental Philosophy; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/95; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hJocWY1yCtJXNPAJ6QZ_M9Kb2W08Up8i/view?usp=sharing
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Using insights from Jean Baudrillard and Martin Heidegger, this work explores the possibility of re-imagining the relationship between death and authenticity in the age of information technologies. It begins by discussing how Baudrillard argues that we have entered the posthuman age where the self i...