• PRATYUSH RANJAN

Transhumanism is the practical-cum-philosophical theory-cum-ideology of the 21st Century and beyond. It advocates the augmentation of the human bodily, intellectual, emotive, and cognitive capacities and so on to overcome the evolutionary genetic limitations, to bring about a revolution in life-forms through intelligent design, through the application of information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive sciences, and so on. This paper undertakes the effort of giving a succinct account of transhumanism and its major sub-categorizations in the form of Democratic Transhumanism, Libertarian Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, The Hedonistic Imperative, Survivalist Transhumanism, Religious Transhumanism, Cosmopolitan Transhumanism, Cosmism, Anarcho-Transhumanism, and so on. It identifies the various possibilities, challenges, and even dangers of applied transhumanism. The approach is largely descriptive and generalist in nature, with the evaluation containing especially philosophical and political components being often given special attention. It critically identifies the anthropocentric bias and origins of transhumanism, and occasionally emphasizes the need to adopt caveats, if the fallouts from the excesses of anthropocentrism on the subaltern are to be overcome or avoided. It compares transhumanism with posthumanism and succinctly identifies the similarities and differences.

Transhumanism, Anthropocentrism, Enlightenment, Extropianism, Hedonism, Singularitarianism, Libertarianism, Democracy, Cosmopolitanism, Anarchism, Cosmism, Posthumanism

"A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF TRANSHUMANISM WITH SOME OF ITS NOTABLE SUBCATEGORIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.120-135, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905215.pdf

"A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF TRANSHUMANISM WITH SOME OF ITS NOTABLE SUBCATEGORIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp120-135, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905215.pdf