Abstract
This research thesis project is committed to investigating whether the posthumanideological shift is an inversion of the humanist shift by analyzing works of the authors and philosophers of each corresponding period, including Thomas More’s Utopia, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Katherine Hayles How We Became Posthuman, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. The answer to the present hypothesis offers a reasonable foundation to suggest a possibility of redefining conceptions of contemporary literary theories as the evidence that supports this proposition may provide critics with new tools to understand and evaluate contemporary ethical principles addressed in the works of the Twenty-First Century poets, writers, and artists.