Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue

✍ Scribed by Jan Miernowski (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Is the Author Responsible? Artistic Agency in Humanist and Antihumanist Perspectives....Pages 1-23
An Ethics for Antihumanism? Belief and Practice....Pages 25-48
Should We Practice Justice Toward Nonhuman Animals? Radical Animal Interests, Humanism, and Classical Justice....Pages 49-70
What Came Before, What Comes After Normal? Some Humanist and Postmodern Antihumanist Thoughts on the Concept of Normalcy....Pages 71-92
What Is a Colony Before Colonialism? Humanist and Antihumanist Concepts of Governmentality from Foucault to Montaigne....Pages 93-115
Humanists, Antihumanists, and Nouveaux Philosophes on What Makes Us Free....Pages 117-138
Can a Human Bomb Be Human? Humanist and Antihumanist Perspectives on War and Terrorism....Pages 139-171
Back Matter....Pages 173-220

✦ Subjects

Ethics;Moral Philosophy