Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
199 pages
978-0-7735-7123-5 (ISBN)
Description
Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices. He explains that because the postmodern conception of human being does not capture what is universal in all humans it is incapable of critically responding to the forcible subordination of different cultures to European "humanity." When oppressed groups explain why they struggle against oppression, they invoke just that idea of human being as subjectivity that postmodern philosophy claims is the basis of oppression. Noonan argues that the voices of cultural differences, when they struggle against the forces of hatred and exclusion, do not ground themselves just in the particular value of their culture but in the universal value of human freedom and self-determination.
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English
Place of publication
Canada
Canada
File size
0,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7123-5 (9780773571235)
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Jeff Noonan
Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference
Book
09/2003
McGill-Queen's University Press
€147.31
Withdrawn from sale
Person
University of Windsor
