Humanism

Davies, Tony

Humanism - 2nd - London Routledge 2008 - The new critical idiom .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index.

Introduction : What is humanism? -- 1. The invention of humanity : Romantic humanism ; Renaissance man: a nineteenth-century creation ; The birth of modernity ; The religion of humanity -- 2. Humanism and antihumanism : Nietzsche: humanism as metaphor and illusion ; Liberal humanism ; Modernism and anithumanism ; The twilight of liberal humanism ; Socialist humanism and theoretical antihumanism ; The death of man -- 3. Humanists before humanism : Humanist printing ; Eloquence and identity ; Gender trouble ; Wind from the east ; Islamic humanism ; Humanist reading ; Pico della Mirandola and 'Renaissance humanism' -- 4. Humanism and enlightenment : Nature and science ; Humanism and religion ; Enlightenment -- 5. The end of humanism : Waiting for the post-man -- Towards a conclusion.

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Humanism.

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