Humanism
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Humanism
（The new critical idiom）
Routledge, 1997
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780415110525
Description
Seemingly an appeal to simple, shared humanity, humanism has proved over the last two hundred years one of the most contentious and divisive of concepts. It has provoked a succession of often bitter altercations and engages with some of the profoundest themes - religious, sexual, political - of modern life and thought. Starting with the nineteenth century educationalists and historians, Tony Davies's study traces the emergence of the figure of Man' in the writings of the humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the free-thinkers and philosophies of the seventeenth and eighteenth. He explores the issues at stake in the bruising encounters between humanism and a succession of intransigent antihumanisms. Humanism is an essential guide to one of the key concepts in cultural and literary thought.
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: hbk ISBN 9780415134781
Description
Definitions of humanism as educational movement, philosophical concept or existential `life stance' have evolved over the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of cultural and political purposes and contexts, and reactions against humanism have contributed to movements such as structuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism.
Tony Davies offers a clear introduction to the many uses of this influential yet complex concept, and this second edition extends his discussion to include:
a wide-ranging history of the development of the term and its influences
the implications of debates around humanism and post-humanism for political, religious and environmental activism
discussion of the key figures in humanist debate from Erasmus and Milton to Heidegger, Foucault and Chomsky
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards a Definition of Humanism 1. The Invention of Humanity 2. From Humanism to Antihumanism 3. Humanists Before Humanism 4. Humanism and Enlightenment 5. The End of Humanism
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