Download or read book New Humanism and Democratic Politics written by M. Shiviah and published by . This book was released on 1979-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanism and Democratic Criticism written by Edward W. Said and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten --
Download or read book Humanism and Democratic Criticism written by E. Said and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional humanistic education has been under assault for many years. In this, his final book, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism - one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten - is still possible. Proposing an enhanced dialogue between cultural traditions as a strategy for revitalizing the humanities, Said contends that words are vital agents of historical and political change and that reading teaches people to continually question, upset, and reform. By considering the emerging social responsibilities of writers and intellectuals in an ever more interconnected world and pointing out that the canonized thinkers of today were yesterday's revolutionaries, Said makes a persuasive case for humanistic education and a more democratic form of criticism.
Download or read book New Humanism written by Manabendra Nath Roy and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a New Political Humanism written by Barry F. Seidman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when religious (and other) fundamentalisms have made powerful inroads into the political arena secular humanism has an especially important role to play, not just in promoting its ideas but also in converting those ideas into political action. This is the unifying theme of this thoughtful collection of articles by leading humanists, all of whom are already engaged in putting humanist ideals into practice. The editors and contributors alike contend that the time is ripe to go beyond traditional humanist issues regarding religion and superstition to develop an all-encompassing political platform based on the humanist life stance. This should include both political and economic agendas. Toward this goal the authors in this volume offer real-world humanist solutions born out of progressive politics. Among the topics discussed are: the beginnings of modern political humanism, rediscovering Enlightenment ideals, humanist ethics as a basis for activism, secular humanism and liberal perspectives, separation of church and state, a humanist economics, the role of political humanism in America, identity politics from a humanist perspective, humanism's influence on woman's changing role, gay rights, George W. Bush's antihumanist policies, patriotism and humanism, humanism as an antidote to nationalism and as the backbone of a new United Nations, prospects for a global humanism, humanist movements in New Zealand, Nigeria, and the Middle East, humanist solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, humanism as the foundation for human rights and international peace, policy implications of the humanist commitment to science, and other stimulating topics. Unique in its focus on the need for political, economic, and social action, this outstanding collection contains many new ideas and lays the groundwork for a humanist agenda in the 21st century.
Download or read book Practice of New Humanism written by Radical Democratic Party (India) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democratic Humanism and American Literature written by Harold Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic Humanism and American Literature illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic nineteenth-century writers--Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture. Challenged by the democratic ideal, and committed to it, they wrote prophetic books in the American liberal tradition and endowed its ethical intelligence. The task of stating a new and undefined freedom was always implicit and often in the foreground of the writing of these nineteenth-century giants. As the author describes the situation, "the free man had to decide in what sense he was bound by nature or could master it; in what sense he was committed to his society and could reconcile his freedom with it." These classic writers devoted their work to examining this dialectic of values; Kaplan sees their complex and polarized democratic consciousness as seminal in the imaginative tradition they generated. What is unique in that tradition of values is the rivalry of criticism with affirmations of faith. "The highly original ethical trait involved here is based on the capacity of a political society to use its negations against itself and survive." The author suggests that in our own time moral judgments are more likely to be the province of activist politics than literature. His new introduction relates the theme of the book to cultural and political developments in the American experience of modernity and adds a discussion of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to the figures treated in the original edition. Since tendencies to develop ideological and idiosyncratic responses to extrinsic events have grown stronger over time, it is more important than ever for scholars and students alike to recover a "moral imagination"--the force that gave rise to the great literary works of the nineteenth century. To describe that force is Harold Kaplan's goal in Democratic Humanism and American Literature.
Download or read book Democracy and Leadership written by Irving Babbitt and published by Liberty Fund. This book was released on 1978 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. "Democracy and Leadership", first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order. Babbitt rejects all deterministic philosophies of history, whether they be the older type found in Saint Augustine or Bossuet, which tends to make of man the puppet of God, or the new type, which tends in all its varieties to make of man the puppet of nature. He offers a compelling critique of unchecked majoritarianism and addresses the great problem of how to discover leaders with standards.
Download or read book M N Roy written by M. N. Roy and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humanism was first receiving widespread public attention in the West, through such publications as The Humanist Manifesto in 1933, unbeknownst to most Westerners humanism was proceeding on a parallel track in India, largely due to the efforts of philosopher and political activist M.N. Roy (1887-1954). Sadly, it wasn''t until the early fifties, at the end of Roy''s life that European humanists began to notice his work.To rectify the unfortunate neglect in the West of one of India''s premier intellectuals, philosopher Innaiah Narisetti has compiled this new collection of Roy''s most significant works. Roy conceived of humanism as a scientific, integral, and radically new worldview. Among many interesting selections in this volume, Roy''s "Principles of Radical Democracy: 22 Theses" is especially representative of his thinking. Here he emphasized ethics and eschewed supernatural interpretations as antithetical to his scientifically oriented conception of "new humanism." He also underscored the importance of universal education to make average people scientifically literate and to teach them critical thinking.Roy was not only a thinker but a doer as well. He spent six years in an Indian prison during the 1930s for opposing the British rule of India.For humanists, philosophers, political scientists, and others, M.N. Roy''s unique and still very relevant view of humanism will have great appeal and broad application beyond its original Indian context.
Download or read book Democracy and Leadership written by Irving Babbitt and published by Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1924 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Humanism and Global Governance written by Yang Lijun and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-08-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international experience in responding to these challenges. It covers a wide range of issues including unequal distribution of wealth, the widening income inequality gap, contradiction between economic development and environmental protection, the middle-income trap, de-globalization, democratic crisis, anti-immigration sentiments, nationalism, and radical extremism. It addresses these issues by emphasizing policy implications for governance. The chapters are selected papers from two international conferences jointly held by the Institute of Public Policy(IPP) at the South China University of Technology and UNESCO. Contributors from China, Europe and the US present their questions, observations, and analyses in a narrative and descriptive style which appeal to a wide range of audience.
Download or read book Justice Humanity and the New World Order written by Ian Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns regarding the new world order , by examining them in the intellectual context of the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. After setting the historical context, the author investigates aspects of Enlightenment political culture as well as aspects of the new world order , including international relations, the European Union and human rights. In conclusion, the author introduces the concept of a new humanism , which he suggests, drawing on certain aspects of Enlightenment political philosophy, can complement the new world order .
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism written by Jill Kraye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.
Download or read book Political Subjectivity written by Reginald Grunenberg and published by Perlen Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Way from Serfdom to CitizenshipToday's understanding of politics is hopelessly outdated as it hasn't changed a lot since the times of Aristotle and Plato. In political philosophy and theory, we have never caught up with the achievements of the bourgeois revolutions, never properly analyzed their deeper meanings for us as citizens of the modern world. But here it is, the dawn of a new era of political philosophy, one that has learned from the past and that is turned towards the future. Yet, it's not an easy task as Grünenberg points out: "This book sets a new level, both in terms of the question and the answer. The goal is a new theory of reflection for political science. The approach being developed here is so radically new, so thorough and so incredibly complex that the simple ideas and old knowledge of politics will probably be the greatest obstacle to understanding the new that will be discovered here. For the first time it becomes clear that not only physics, biology and mathematics can be highly demanding, complicated and difficult to represent. The foundations of political philosophy exposed here are at least as great a challenge for the mind and imagination. The results claim to be as universally valid as the great scientific models." Political science is theoretically completely blank to date compared to sociology, psychology and economy, an academic discipline that has hardly earned the noble title of 'science'. But here is the solution, a philosophically grounded framework for political science including all necessary key concepts. Now we can give the ultimate answer to "What is political?" or "What is a democrat?," questions that so far led into unsolvable riddles or absurdities. This extraordinarily profound study is a groundwork for Grünenberg's upcoming book You are Many. The Polycentric Subject (2019) which will give the more general context of a new philosophy of subjectivity and nothing less than the opening to a New Humanism.Reviews"The Theory of Relativity of Politics[title]: The 20th century has been characterized by an accumulation of political tragedies that are among the darkest moments mankind has to deal with. Totalitarianism and the collective collapse of moral judgment are part of the signature of this epoch. How it could have happened that in a relatively short period of time - think of the twelve years of National Socialism in Germany - the moral orientation system of an entire generation could be suspended is still in need of explanation today. Reginald Grünenberg, a political scientist working as an entrepreneur, goes back to the first questions: What actually is the political? Even after the totalitarianism of the 20th century, massacres and atrocities continue. Humanity could learn nothing from the past because it still misunderstood the essence of politics. That he, Grünenberg, has found a new 'theory of reflection', even a 'theory of relativity' of politics, is impressively stated on the first page of the introduction. Under the guidance of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt, the author returns to the concept of polis. The human capacity to generate different forms of living-together has become 'mysterious to us since antiquity, when it lost its self-evidence'. Grünenberg locates the malaise in a concept of subjectivity that has been castrated of every inner connotation - of empathy, charisma and judgment. A masterstroke, uncompromisingly thought and nowhere conciliatory, especially not towards the heroes of German post-war thinking like Dieter Henrich, Jürgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann." Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Download or read book Political Philosophy of M N Roy written by Dr. S. N. Talwar and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Philosophy of M. N. Roy M.N. Roy may be best remembered as a philosopher of Radical Humanism. He propounded his new philosophy as a solution for the political, cultural and moral crisis which confronted mankind since 1945. His philosophy was in the nature of a 'Third Force' , as he believed that Communism, as it unfolded itself in the Soviet Union in the Stalinist era, was the greatest menace to human potentialities. He elaborated his schemes of 'Radical Democracy' and 'Humanist Politics' as integral parts of Radical Humanism to philosophically reconstruct a socially-cohesive state structure. The edifice of his philosophy rested on four laudable pillars viz. Rationalism, Humanism, Freedom and Materialism and spiritualism and no longer regarded man as a mere ' economic animal'. His philosophy asserted the supremacy of man in a socio-political system that transcended national boundaries. The study attempts a critical appraisal of Radical Humanism avoiding the adulation of a disciple and the approach of an uncharitable critic. It is an updated study, based on the author's three research dissertations besides other relevant literature. The first six chapters unfold the story of the evolution of Roy's philosophy and the seventh is a critical evaluation of the basic postulates of Radical Humanism. The study endeavors to get under the skin of real Roy, the visionary, who through his condemnation of orthodox Marxism as practiced in the Soviet Union had almost predicted its impending failure that actually happened in 1989. The study would be useful to academics, research scholars, general readers and post-graduate students of social sciences. The pro-Marxist and anti-Marxist intelligentsia should find the work objectively analytical.
Download or read book The New Humanism written by J. David Hoeveler and published by Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and the New Humanism written by Walt Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
