Jeff Noonan

Embodied Humanism

Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781793636942
• ISBN-10: 179363694X
• Artikelnr.: 64263591

Autorenporträt

Jeff Noonan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. He is the author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference (2003), Democratic Society and Human Needs (2006), and Materialist Ethics and Life-Value (2012), and more than 50 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Humanity, Struggle, and the Sensuous Enjoyment of Life
Chapter 1: Why Posthumanism?
Chapter 2: Life Under the Sun: Ancient Poetic and Philosophical Insights
into the Goods of Earthly Life
Chapter 3: The Renaissance and Humanity's Place in the Order of Things
Chapter 4: The Enlightenment and the Deployment of Reason as a Critical
Weapon
Chapter 5: The Social Conditions for the Universal Enjoyment of Life
Chapter 6: Responsibility and the Pleasures of Social Individuals
Bibliography
Index
About the Author