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The Question of humanism : challenges and possibilities

Title
The Question of humanism : challenges and possibilities / edited by David Goicoechea, John C. Luik, and Tim Madigan.
Publication
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Goicoechea, David.
  • Luik, John C.
  • Madigan, Tim.
Description
341 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Humanism
  • Humanism
  • humanism
  • Humanismus
  • Philosophie
  • Geschichte
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Humanisme (levensbeschouwing)
  • Levensbeschouwing
  • Humanisme
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Introduction : the question of humanism and the career of humanism / John Luik -- Were Plato and Aristotle humanists? / Martin Andic -- Roman humanism / Allan Booth -- St. Thomas and medieval humanism / Edward A. Synan -- Christianity, humanism, and St. Thomas Aquinas / R.J. McLaughlin -- What is Renaissance humanism? / Martin Andic -- William Blake and the Romantic perception of humanism / Cecil Abrahams -- Existentialism, humanism, and positivism / Calvin Hayes -- An old question raised yet again : is Kant an Enlightenment humanist? / John Luik -- Kierkegaard's teleological humanism / Robert L. Perkins -- The "humanism" and the humanism of Karl Marx / Danny Goldstick -- Marxism, humanism, and ecology / James Lawler and Zaid Orudjev -- Zarathustra and Enlightenment humanism / David Goicoechea -- Heidegger : what is called humanism? / Richard S.G. Brown.
  • What now little man? : comedy, tragedy, and the politics of antihumanism / Samuel Ajzenstat -- Foucault and the question of humanism / Charles E. Scott -- Acting human in our time / Zygmunt Adamczewski -- Pyrrhonism and the concept of a common human nature in eighteenth-century aesthetic thought / Michael Cardy -- The human person in American pragmatism / Richard P. Francis -- Sartre and the humanism of spontaneity / Monica C. Hornyansky -- The humanistic implications of liberation theology : Juan Luis Segundo and Karl Marx / Marsha A. Hewitt -- The modern spirit and the paradox of humanism / Kenneth Dorter -- The inevitability of humanism / Graeme Nicholson -- Secular humanism and eupraxophy / Paul Kurtz -- Afterword : the answer of humanism / Tim Madigan.
ISBN
  • 0879756144
  • 9780879756147
LCCN
90025502
OCLC
  • ocm22858863
  • 22858863
  • SCSB-1909266
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library