end of man

is the notion that the west has built the figure of man and the ide of knowledge around the idea of individuality, of subjectivity, of consciousness, of the ego, and that this image of man is in the process of disappearing.

. . . And what I mean by 'the end of man' is, deep down, the end of all these forms... of individuality, of subjectivity, of consciousness, of the ego, on which we built and from which we have tried to build and to constitute knowledge. This is one of the forms of this limitation, of these exclusions, of these rejections that I was talking about . . . . The West has tried to build the figure of man in this way, and this image is in the process of disappearing . . . And so I dont' say the things I say because they are what I think, but rather I say them with the end in mind of self-destruction, precisely to make sure they are no longer what I think. To be really certain that from now on, outside of me, they are going to live a life or die in such a way that I will not have to recognize myself in them.

end of man, n.All

end of man