Post-Anthropocentric Model of the Development of the Humanities

The article examines the emergence of a post-humanities model of scientific knowledge, formed against the backdrop of the crisis of classical humanistic studies, cognitive capitalism, and the processes of posthuman convergence. Particular attention is given to the transition from humanistic and anthropocentric epistemological paradigms to posthumanist and post-anthropocentric approaches grounded in transversality, multiplicity, and relational forms of subjectivity. The study analyzes the transformation of the disciplinary structure of science, within which the boundaries between the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences are redefined through the inclusion of non-human agents – animals, technologies, media environments, and ecological systems – into the field of inquiry. The article substantiates the philosophical and methodological foundations of the post-humanities approach, including the ontology of vital new materialism, the principles of relationality and transversality, as well as a critique of universalist notions of scientific objectivity and validity. Key categories are highlighted, such as defamiliarization, nomadism, affectivity, and ecosophy, which shape new cognitive and educational models. The methodological framework of the study relies on a broad post-anthropocentric perspective, incorporating postdisciplinary and transversal approaches. The research employs philosophical-hermeneutical analysis, critical discourse analysis, and comparative methods. The scientific novelty of the study lies in clarifying the methodological foundations of post-humanities and substantiating the concept of transversality as a principle of organizing contemporary humanistic knowledge. The work reveals the potential of post-humanities as a form of critical nomadic thought that combines the ontology of vital new materialism with affirmative ethics and ecological sensitivity. It offers an original interpretation of the post-humanities paradigm as a transition from disciplinary humanism to relational and ecosophical models of knowledge, where the knowing subject is conceived as a multiple, distributed, affective, and responsible assemblage. The article also highlights both the productive possibilities of the post-humanities perspective – expanding the horizons of knowledge and rethinking the subject and ethics – and its potential risks, such as methodological fragmentation, researcher desubjectivation, and the reproduction of hegemonic attitudes under the guise of critical discourse.

philosophy of science, humanities, posthumanities, post-anthropocentrism, posthumanism, transversality, new materialism, nomadic subject, Rosi Braidotti, critical studies