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Humanism / Tony Davies.

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ISBN	9780415420648 (hardback : cased : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780415420655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Name	Davies, Tony, 1940-
Title	Humanism / Tony Davies.
Edition	2nd ed.
Published	Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Description	168 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes	Previous ed.: 1997.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index.
Contents	Introduction: What Is Humanism? -- 1. The Invention of Humanity -- Romantic Humanism -- Renaissance Man: a Nineteenth-century Creation -- The Birth of Modernity -- The Religion of Humanity -- 2. Humanism and Antihumanism -- Nietzsche: Humanism as Metaphor and Illusion -- Liberal Humanism -- Modernism and Antihumanism -- The Twilight of Liberal Humanism -- Socialist Humanism and Theoretical Antihumanism -- The Death of Man -- 3. Humanists before Humanism -- Humanist Printing -- Eloquence and Identity -- Gender Trouble -- Wind from the East -- Islamic Humanism -- Humanist Reading -- Pico Della Mirandola and 'Renaissance Humanism' -- 4. Humanism and Enlightenment -- Nature and Science -- Humanism and Religion -- Enlightenment -- 5. The End of Humanism -- Waiting for the Post-Man -- Towards a Conclusion...
Subjects	Criticism
	Literature -- Philosophy
	Humanism in literature
Series	The new critical idiom
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Criticism . Humanism in literature . Literature -- Philosophy . See Also: Aesthetics . Art criticism . Rhetoric . Style, Literary . Authors: Davies, Tony, 1940- . Series: New critical idiom .