This paper attempts to classify the subject discourse surrounding post-human by type and to examine what theoretical problems arise in aesthetic dimension. This article focuses on the post-human concept of the subject because it sees the key to overco...
This paper attempts to classify the subject discourse surrounding post-human by type and to examine what theoretical problems arise in aesthetic dimension. This article focuses on the post-human concept of the subject because it sees the key to overcoming modern humanism in seeking a new identity about the subject. The crisis of humanism is that the status of the subject, which is at the center of humanism, is in crisis as the structural others of the modern subject are revived. Post structuralism emerged as criticizing it by the demolition of the concept of subject, reduction of subject, denial of subject. On the other hand, post structuralism has led to the problem of loss of subjectivity. In this context, it is noticed how post-humanism presents the position of the subject. In this respect, it is essential that the subject concept of post - human discourse is examined to see what difference it has with humanism. To this end, we tried to classify the post-human formation theories of subjectivity into four types by attempting to classify them in terms of developmental, structural, and epistemological dimensions and tried to investigate what kinds of subject types conflict with aesthetic theory. As a preliminary work, we reviewed the process of Baumgarten's concept of the subject and Herder' s subject concept developed differently in the tradition of aesthetics. As a result, we can see that the former presents a different aesthetic experience, and the latter presents a different human image as a subject of aesthetic power. In the latter case, we overcome the subjectivity of reason center in that it is a concept that encompasses the potential to move toward aesthetic reflection that touches the underlying nature through sensory experience, affirming sensory action capturing feeling from object. I could see that it could be planned as a subjectivity that encompasses lively emotions and reflexive reason. In this context, one of the four types of Post Human, robot or artificial intelligence, has come to the conclusion that it can not be established as aesthetic subject when applied to the theory of aesthetics such as aesthetic power, aesthetic experience, and aesthetic sense.