The Arrogance of Humanism

by David W. Ehrenfeld

Book Overview

An inquiry into the origins, dissemination, and consequences of the modern belief that humans can solve any problem and overcome any difficulty, given time and resources enough.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195028902
• ISBN13: 9780195028904
• Release Date: February 1981
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

As a Humanist...

As a humanist, I realize the impact we have on the world. Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel in 2007. The Kyoto Protocol was initially adopted in 1997. David Erhenfeld published this book in 1981. David Ehrenfeld's visionary text, The Arrogance of Humanism, is a seminal book in the history of a environmental and socioeconomic movement that is finally being realized by the global population. Read it now, so you may understand what we face in the near future.

Balanced and reasonable analysis of pressing issues

Dr. Ehrenfeld counsels a balance of emotion and reason, and models exactly what he advises, in a moving and intelligent analysis of much of what we face on a broad variety of fronts, in the environment, education and child-rearing, biotechnology and politics. His courageous review of all facets underlying our modern "unease" and his attempt to achieve wisdom, even beyond knowledge, is noteworthy and closely adheres to reality. The writing is eloquent and incisive, and evokes the highest capacities in the reader and thinker to join the dialogue with heart and mind open and awake. Thank you for a brave, powerful and important consideration of how to where we are proceeding.