ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on the reinvention of the human providing an overview of the emergence of the human species as a planetary presence. It presents a discussion of critical reflections on humanity, humanism, and anthropocentrism, and an introduction of some ways of imagining the integration of the human species into its ecological and cosmic contexts. Drawing upon ecological wisdom embedded in philosophy, religion, and science, one can participate in the reinvention of the human at the species level, maintaining a critical attitude toward anthropocentric and humanistic perspectives while retying the anthropocosmic threads that can orient human thinking, feeling, and acting toward the cultivation of mutually enhancing human-Earth relations. Reinventing the human, becoming anthropocosmic, humans are opening up to a new understanding of themselves as a species as well as a new understanding of Earth and the cosmos.
