| Title | Humanism and Its Critics |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Authors | Pinn, Anthony B., Slavica Jakelić, and Slavica Jakelić |
| Pagination | 264-293 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-19-092153-8 |
| Abstract | The most significant contemporary challenges to humanism do not come from critics who relegate it to anti-religiousness or exclusively immanent concerns, but from those who critique humanitarianism and human rights as the most powerful humanist discourses of our time. These critics bring two important insights: they identify humanism as both religious and secular in character, and they point to it as an enacted rather than merely an intellectual disposition. The critics in question, however, sustain a narrow, Western centric understanding of what humanism is. This chapter seeks to destabilize that view but also to move beyond the mere “critique of critics” (Rita Felski,
The Limits of Critique
) to gesture toward the particularity and plurality of humanist traditions as platforms for ethical and political practices—humanitarianism and human rights included. |
| URL | https://oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190921538.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190921538-e-8 |
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