Overview
- Traces the roots of postmodern antihumanism
- Presents an array of topics, including ethics, animality and colonialism
- Confronts key intellectual problems shared by early-modern and post-modern periods
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This book employs perspectives from continental philosophy, intellectual history, and literary and cultural studies to breach the divide between early modernist and modernist thinkers. It turns to early modern humanism in order to challenge late 20th-century thought and present-day posthumanism. This book addresses contemporary concerns such as the moral responsibility of the artist, the place of religious beliefs in our secular societies, legal rights extended to nonhuman species, the sense of ‘normality’ applied to the human body, the politics of migration, individual political freedom and international terrorism. It demonstrates how early modern humanism can bring new perspectives to postmodern antihumanism and even invite us to envision a humanism of the future.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jan Miernowski is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His latest books include La Beauté de la haine (Droz, 2014) and an edited volume on the intersection between the grotesque and the sublime.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue
Editors: Jan Miernowski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32276-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32275-9Published: 27 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81240-3Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32276-6Published: 14 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 220
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy