Humanism category: 419 books
by Cary Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—*posthumanities*—respond...
The Power of Negativity
Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed. This extensive collection of writings...
Utopia
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s...
by James Robert Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Life After Faith
The Case for Secular Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective,...
Mortal Gods
Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing...
Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England
Newman, Arnold, and Pater
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Hebrew and Hellene explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture. Fundamentally concerned with the humanistic vision of Arnold and Pater, especially...
Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism
Plea for a mainstream culture appropriate to our times
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
We are living in a time of asynchrony: While technologically we are firmly in the 21st century, our world views are still characterized by ancient legends which are thousands of years old. This combination of high-level technical ability and highly naïve child-like beliefs could have disastrous consequences...
The Unfinished Project
Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
As humanity becomes increasingly interconnected through globalization, the question of whether community is possible within culturally diverse societies has returned as a principal concern for contemporary thought. Lorenzo Simpson charges that the current discussion is stuck at an impasse-between...
by Dolan Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Features a cross-disciplinary dialogue among writers who are sympathetic to the humanist tradition and interested in developing a new humanist project through debate.
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
An insightful look at alienation in the modern world from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom.
Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced...
On Education
A Call for the Reform to End the Domination of the Scholasticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Of Education represents John Milton's most comprehensive statement on educational reform. It was Milton's opinion that education had two objectives: one public, to "fit a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war"; and...
On Equilibrium
Six Qualities of the New Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This international bestseller and “intellectual tour de force” (The Montreal Gazette) is both an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action.
Saved by Beauty
Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Roger Housden traveled to Iran to meet with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, the belief in scholarship and artistry that began with the reign of Cyrus the Great. He traveled to the mountains of Kurdistan to learn from Sufis, whose...