Humanism revisited: an anthropological perspective
"The West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from 'heteronomy': it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we are still stuck in Euroce...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York Oxford
Berghahn
[2024]
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| In: | Jahr: 2024 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Humanism
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from 'heteronomy': it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (and often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help promote inclusion and pluralism"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-174) and indexes |
| Physische Details: | xxii, 179 Seiten, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80539-473-0 |
