Humanism in a Non-Humanist World

ISBN-13: 9783319579092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 285 str.

Monica Miller

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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

Blurb

This book brings 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.