Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2022, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (3): 31-40.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.03.004

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Posthuman Ethics of Joy towards a Community: A Study of Braidotti’s Posthuman Ethics

Wei-wei ZHOU, Feng WANG   

  • Accepted:2022-04-13 Online:2022-05-15 Published:2022-05-31

Abstract:

Despite its attention to human community, posthuman ethics of joy concerns itself with a larger community of lives far more than the human species. Based on the monism of hylozoism of the New-Spinoza doctrine and the integrity of general vitality as the basic principle, Braidotti puts forward a bold theory of a life community of the common material, which constitutes human beings and non-human beings, ecological basis and technological intermediary. In an era full of negative panics, she actively puts forward posthuman ethics of joy towards the unity of all living things beyond the human species. This ethical concept advocates equality, positivity, joy, affirmation, peace and sustainability, explores the happy nature of collective subjects, and the realization of strengthening cooperation and enhancing potentiality among various subjects. It advocates the positive transformation of negative effects to create the future, and highlights the characteristics of affirmation, creation, combination and transformation of posthuman ethics, and leads to a qualitative leap of the new life community.

Key words: posthuman, ethics of joy, community, general vitality