Humanism in a Non-Humanist World

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86281-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 3899 g

Reihe: Studies in Humanism and Atheism

This bookbrings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes “humanism” from the “non-humanist?”  Readers will encounter a wide-range of perspectives on the terms bringing together this volume, where “Humanism” “Non-Humanist” and “World” are not taken for granted, but instead, tackled from a wide variety of perspectives, spaces, discourses, and approaches. This volume offers both a pragmatic and scholarly account of these terms and worldviews allowing for multiple points of analytical and practical points of entry into the unfolding dialogue between humanism and the non-humanist world. In this way, this volume is attentive to both theoretically and historically grounded inquiry and applied practical application.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Monica R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. World-views as Options – Humanistic and Non-Humanistic.- 3. Us vs. Them: But Who Is Us and Who Is Them?.- 4. Secular Voices of Color – Digital Storytelling.- 5. Where Humanism is and Where it is Headed in this Non-Humanist  World.- 6. How could Humanists Become Solidary with the Non-Humanist World?: Towards an Anamnestic Humanism.- 7. The Absence of Presence: Relating to Black (Non)Humanisms in Popular Culture.- 8. Rudy’s Paradox: The ALIENation of Race and its Non-Humans.- 9. Figuring in Scripture.- 10. A Case for Community: Within and Beyond the Four Walls.- 11. Uncanny Nihilism and Cornel West’s Tragic Humanism.- 12. Relating to a “Non-Humanist” World: Participating in Democracy, On Why the Humanist Viewpoint Matters.- 13. Postscript.

Über Autor(innen)

Monica R. Miller is associate professor of religion and Africana studies, and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Lehigh University, USA.