Humanism Revisited

Download or read book Humanism Revisited written by Rik Pinxten and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.