very terms through which human/nonhuman distinctions are made, for example in enduring legacies of scientific racism, a gesture toward a “beyond” actually “returns us to a Eurocentric transcendentalism long challenged”. Posthumanist scholarship, due to characteristic rhetorical techniques, is also frequently subject to the same critiques commonly made of postmodernist scholarship in the 1980s and 1990s. See also Superhuman Posthuman Posthumanization Postmodernism Transhumanism References Works cited Critical theory Humanism Ontology Philosophical theories Philosophical schools and traditions Postmodernism