Humanism in a Non-Humanist World

This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes “humanism” from the “non-humanist?” Readers will encounter a wide-range of pe...

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Contributors: Miller, Monica R. 1981- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Studies in Humanism and Atheism
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Springer eBook Collection Religion and Philosophy
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
Further subjects:B Religious Studies
B Religion
B African Americans
B Secularism
B Political Science
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Parallel Edition:Druckausg.: 978-3-319-57909-2
Printed edition: 9783319579092
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Summary:This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes “humanism” from the “non-humanist?” Readers will encounter a wide-range of perspectives on the terms bringing together this volume, where “Humanism” “Non-Humanist” and “World” are not taken for granted, but instead, tackled from a wide variety of perspectives, spaces, discourses, and approaches. This volume offers both a pragmatic and scholarly account of these terms and worldviews allowing for multiple points of analytical and practical points of entry into the unfolding dialogue between humanism and the non-humanist world. In this way, this volume is attentive to both theoretically and historically grounded inquiry and applied practical application
1. Introduction -- 2. World-views as Options - Humanistic and Non-Humanistic -- 3. Us vs. Them: But Who Is Us and Who Is Them? -- 4. Secular Voices of Color - Digital Storytelling -- 5. Where Humanism is and Where it is Headed in this Non-Humanist World -- 6. How could Humanists Become Solidary with the Non-Humanist World?: Towards an Anamnestic Humanism -- 7. The Absence of Presence: Relating to Black (Non)Humanisms in Popular Culture -- 8. Rudy’s Paradox: The ALIENation of Race and its Non-Humans -- 9. Figuring in Scripture -- 10. A Case for Community: Within and Beyond the Four Walls -- 11. Uncanny Nihilism and Cornel West’s Tragic Humanism -- 12. Relating to a “Non-Humanist” World: Participating in Democracy, On Why the Humanist Viewpoint Matters -- 13. Postscript
ISBN:331957910X
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57910-8