Humanism Revisited: An Anthropological Perspective

by Rik Pinxten

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805394738
• ISBN13: 9781805394730
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"