Humanism Revisited
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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.
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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.
Content
Foreword
Laura Nader
Preface
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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
Afterword
Tim Ingold
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