In recent years calls for a new humanism have arisen from a variety of voices across the
spectrum of philosophy expressing frustration with outdated models of the human that cannot
account for the richness of our social being. The postmodern deconstruction of the human now
requires a reconstructive moment. In response the author articulates a new and explicitly
posthumanist humanism using the framework developed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his later
Marxist-Existentialist works. Sartre's unique dialectical and hermeneutical methods allow us to
reconceptualize the human beyond traditional dichotomies of individual social and freedom
necessity. The author argues that the individual and the social should be understood as
existing within a dynamic co-constituting interrelation and that individual autonomy is not
at odds with but rather fundamentally enabled by the social.
