Critical Humanisms: Humanist/Anti-Humanist Dialogues

by Andy Mousley, Martin Halliwell, Andrew Mousley

Book Overview

This distinctive reappraisal of humanism argues that humanist thought is a diverse tradition which cannot be reduced to current conceptions of it. By considering humanism via the categories of Romantic, Existential, Dialogic, Civic, Spiritual, Pagan, Pragmatic and Technological Humanisms, Halliwell and Mousley propose that the critical edge of humanist thought can be rescued from its popular view as intellectually redundant. They also argue that because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748615059
• ISBN13: 9780748615056
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.5"