Critical humanisms : humanist/anti-humanist debates
The book focuses on the thought of twenty-four mainly European and North American thinkers, ranging historically from the Renaissance to postmodernism.
256 pages
9780748615056, 0748615059
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Acknowledgements; Introduction Towards a Critical Humanism; Chapter 1: Romantic Humanism; (Shakespeare - Marx - Cixous); Chapter 2: Existential Humanism; (Sartre - Arendt - Fanon); Chapter 3: Dialogic Humanism; (Freud - Irigaray - Levinas); Chapter 4: Civic Humanism; (Wollstonecraft - Habermas - Hall); Chapter 5: Spiritual Humanism; (Benjamin - King - Kristeva); Chapter 6: Pagan Humanism; (Bakhtin - Nietzsche - Bataille); Chapter 7: Pragmatic Humanism; (James - Dewey - Rorty); Chapter 8: Technological Humanism; (Foucault - Baudrillard - Haraway); Conclusion: Inhuman, Posthuman, Transhuman, Human; Endnotes; General Bibliography; Index.