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The theme of man’s death is one of the main slogans of postmodernity. This article presents a few selected reflections in the contemporary philosophy on posthuman condition. The presented analysis shows that even though postmodernism announced the transgression of man, in a human being there will always remain the mysterious element, which is impossible to eliminate, because it would mean the end of any language. Equating man with nothingness does not mean that postmodernism is not longer interested in the subject (despite breaking with it).