Critical Humanist Perspectives

Adrian Pablé is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong.

PART I

1 Introduction: humanism, existentialism and integrational semiology (Adrian Pablé)

PART II Integrating humanism 2 Secular humanist discourses on rationality: exploring questions in the philosophy of language and communication (Adrian Pablé)
3 Bedrock concepts and integrational theory: selves, animals and legal persons (Christopher Hutton)
4 The nature of language and the language of nature: Rabindranath Tagore’s Sabda Tattwo or The Essence of Words as an integrationist text (Rukmini Bhaya Nair)
5 An integrationist perspective on African philosophy (Sinfree B. Makoni and Cristine G. Severo)

PART III Integrating linguistics 6 Can integrational linguistics be integrated with (critical) discourse analysis? (Michael Toolan)
7 Indeterminacy in sociolinguistic and integrationist theory (Jon Orman)
8 Towards human concepts of language meaning and text comprehension (Charlotte Conrad)

PART IV Integrating systems and agency

9 The notion of an integrated system (Dorthe Duncker)
10 Humanist machines: an integrationist critique of mechanical models (David Bade)

PART V Integrating freedom and creativity 11 Mr. Micawber anticipates Feist : transformations of mental labour (Julian Warner)
12 Language and freedom vol 1: the abstract and the concrete (Peter E. Jones)
13 Emotional labour and the neoliberal entrepreneurial self at work and in the home: emotions as privatised individual capital or revolutionary social praxis? (Paul J. Thibault)

PART VI Integrating humanist models of education 14 Freedom of speech in a therapeutic age (Dennis Hayes)
15 ‘Crazy English’ and individual English learners: an integrationist critique of English education as a business in China (Feifei Zhou)

PART VII Discussion: integrationism, anti-humanism and the suprasubjective (Paul Cobley)