Culture After Humanism

Culture After Humanism
Author: Iain Chambers
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415247559

Culture After Humanism asks what happens to history, culture, subjectivity and critical analysis in the wake of postcolonial theory.

Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe

Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
Author: Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1995-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521407243

This new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.

Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe

Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
Author: Charles G. Nauert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2006-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521839092

The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.

Humanism and Religion

Humanism and Religion
Author: Jens Zimmermann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2012-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199697752

Jens Zimmermann suggests that the West can rearticulate its identity and renew its cultural purpose by recovering the humanistic ethos that originally shaped Western culture. He traces the religious roots of humanism, and combines humanism, religion and hermeneutic philosophy to re-imagine humanism for our current cultural and intellectual climate.

The World of Persian Literary Humanism

The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674067592

Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.

Human, All Too (Post)Human

Human, All Too (Post)Human
Author: Jennifer Cotter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498505740

The contemporary has marked itself off from modernity by questioning its humanism that centers the world around the human as the moral subject of free will and self-determination, the bearer of universal essence that is the basis of human rights. Modernism normalizes humanism through language as referential, a set of interrelated signs that correspond to the empirical reality outside it. Humanist modernity, in other words, is seen in the contemporary as a regime that, by separating the human from the non-human and insisting on language as correspondence, not only fails to engage the emerging forms of social relations in which the boundaries of human and machine are fading but is also indifferent to the difference between the “other”’s life and other lives. Human, All Too (Post)Human: The Humanities after Humanism argues that the Nietzschean tendencies that provide the philosophical boundaries of post-humanism do not undo humanism but reform it, constructing a parallel discourse that saves humanism from itself. Grounded in materialist analysis of social life, Human, All Too (Post)Human argues that humanism and post-humanism are cultural discourses that normalize different stages of capitalism—analog and digital capitalism. They are different orders of property relations. The question, the writers argue, is not humanism or post-humanism, namely cultural representations, but the material relations of production that are centered on wage labor. Language, free will, or human rights are not the issues since “Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby.” The question that shapes all questions, in Human, All Too (Post)Human is freedom from (wage) labor.

Humanism Betrayed

Humanism Betrayed
Author: Graham Good
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0773521860

In Humanism Betrayed Graham Good offers a defence of liberal humanism against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that dominate today's university. He uses the McEwen Report episode at the University of British Columbia to illustrate the current political climate in universities, showing how due process was neglected in favour of ideological inquisition.

A Culture of Teaching

A Culture of Teaching
Author: Rebecca W. Bushnell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780801483561

In pedagogical manuals strongly reminiscent of gardening guides, the scholar was seen as both a pliant vine and a force of nature.

After the Human

After the Human
Author: Sherryl Vint
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108836666

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.