Description: If you are reading this, it’s likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don’t think of yourself in those terms. You may be drawn to literature and the humanities. You may prefer to base your moral choices on fellow-feeling and responsibility to others rather than on religious commandments. Or you may simply believe that individual lives are more important than grand political visions or dogmas.If any of these apply, you are part of a long tradition of humanist thought, and you share that tradition with many extraordinary individuals through history who have put rational enquiry, cultural richness, freedom of thought and a sense of hope at the heart of their lives.Humanly Possible introduces us to some of these people, as it asks what humanism is and why it has flourished for so long, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics and tyrants. It is a book brimming with ideas, personalities and experiments in living – from the literary enthusiasts of the fourteenth century to the secular campaigners of our own time, from Erasmus to Esperanto, from anatomists to agnostics, from Christine de Pizan to Bertrand Russell, and from Voltaire to Zora Neale Hurston. It takes us on an irresistible journey, and joyfully celebrates open-mindedness, optimism, freedom and the power of the here and now—humanist values which have helped steer us through dark times in the past, and which are just as urgently needed in our world today. Shipped the next day 5/12/24
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Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2023-03-28
Book Title: Humanly Possible : Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, History & Surveys / Modern, Movements / Humanism
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 25.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Sarah Bakewell
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover