Humanism Revisited

An Anthropological Perspective

Rik Pinxten (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-473-0 (ISBN)

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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 perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help promote inclusion and pluralism.

Rik Pinxten is Professor Emeritus of Ghent University, Belgium, and was a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago, Syracuse University, NY, and of the University of Vienna, Austria. He has published 27 books in different languages, as well as some180 papers. He is also Editor in Chief of the journal Cultural Dynamics published by Sage.

Foreword

Laura Nader

Preface

Note on Text

Introduction: The Zebra and The Dolphin in Us

Part I: The State of Things

Chapter 1. Humanism Today

Chapter 2. Worldwide Interdependence in the 21st Century

Part II: Plea for NEED-Humanism

Chapter 3. NEED Humanism

Chapter 4. NE: Not-Eurocentric Humanism

Chapter 5. E-Humanism

Chapter 6. D-Humanism

Chapter 7. What Next? Good Guys and Villains?

Chapter 8. Transhumanism, ICT and The Return of The Masses

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-473-8 / 1805394738
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-473-0 / 9781805394730
Zustand	Neuware