machine has dropped driver. Horkheimer1 This essay elaborates a thesis in contemporary philosophy, still much neglected, but which, nevertheless, challenges very foundation of last four hundred years of Western culture. This thesis, which have called The Death Of Man, has hardly penetrated leading forces of contemporary thought, but, if it were seriously appropriated, would transform analysis of humanities, social sciences, and perhaps even normal philosophy of natural sciences, at least in Anglo-Saxon culture. shall try to elaborate this development under following headings: A New Obituary; Appearance and Disappearance Of Subject; Authorless Text; Locus For Play; and Elements Of Anti-Humanism. A New Obituary Over last decade there has arisen a new theme in modern Europe, especially in modern France, which has spread gradually, and even begins to have its impact in Anglo-Saxon cultures. Anglo-Saxon intellectual societies, with strong roots in British Empiricism, are frequently inheritors of European ideas; German idealism, Marx, Freud, Phenomenology, Existentialism, and more recently Post-Modernism and Deconstructionism. There an old saying in philosophy, validity of which must let reader be judge, to effect that every good idea when it dead, goes to America. So one may be assured that, if there anything to this theme, we will hear more of it in future rather than less. Under strong, although not exclusive, influence of Michel Foucault, French have proclaimed, death of man, or what Foucault also calls The Anthropological Sleep. Consequently, this essay an attempt to write and discuss our own obituary, an activity which most of mankind never has good fortune to perform. essential proposal that Western thought, for last four hundred years, has given privileged and inappropriate place to primacy of subject, and this context and episteme, this guiding thread of Western culture, now over. Consequently, man dead! There no primacy of subject, in fact there no subject. For those who may be amazed by such a suggestion, let me repeat it loud and clear, there no subject! Foucault writes, For threshold of modernity situated not by attempt to apply objective methods to study of man, but rather by constitution of an empirico-transcendental doublet which was called man.2 While this may have been threshold, very beginning of modernity, and while such philosophical anthropology may have dominated our day, its primacy and authority have now come to an end, at which point there arises post-modern culture, in which we live, whether we realize it or not. There no subject, no self, no human essence, no focusing world on centering human being, there no I whether finite or transcendental of supreme importance and at heart of things. self as central reality became grand illusion of our time. Man dead! Little wonder that Joan Stambaugh suggests that question of self the supreme philosophical question,3 or that Gary Brent Madison can write, The question of personal identity indeed central question of philosophy.4 This arrangement of things, to which we have all become so accustomed, is disintegrating before our eyes. Foucault continues, To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man in his essence, to all those who wish to take him as their starting point in their attempts to reach truth, to all those who, on other hand refer all knowledge back to truths of man himself, to all those who refuse to formalize without anthropologizing, who refuse to anthropologize without demystifying, who refuse to think without immediately thinking that it man who thinking, to all those warped and twisted forms of reflection we can only answer with a philosophical laugh-which means, to a certain extent, a silent one. …