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This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes "humanism" from the "non-humanist?" Readers will encounter a wide-range of perspectives on the terms bringing together this volume, where "Humanism" "Non-Humanist" and "World" are not taken for granted, but instead, tackled from a wide variety of perspectives, spaces, discourses, and approaches. This volume offers both a pragmatic and scholarly account of these terms and worldviews allowing for multiple points of analytical and practical points of entry into the unfolding dialogue between humanism and the non-humanist world. In this way, this volume is attentive to both theoretically and historically grounded inquiry and applied practical application.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. World-views as Options - Humanistic and Non-Humanistic.- 3. Us vs. Them: But Who Is Us and Who Is Them?.- 4. Secular Voices of Color - Digital Storytelling.- 5. Where Humanism is and Where it is Headed in this Non-Humanist World.- 6. How could Humanists Become Solidary with the Non-Humanist World?: Towards an Anamnestic Humanism.- 7. The Absence of Presence: Relating to Black (Non)Humanisms in Popular Culture.- 8. Rudy's Paradox: The ALIENation of Race and its Non-Humans.- 9. Figuring in Scripture.- 10. A Case for Community: Within and Beyond the Four Walls.- 11. Uncanny Nihilism and Cornel West's Tragic Humanism.- 12. Relating to a "Non-Humanist" World: Participating in Democracy, On Why the Humanist Viewpoint Matters.- 13. Postscript.
About the author
Monica R. Miller is associate professor of religion and Africana studies, and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Lehigh University, USA.
Summary
This bookbrings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes “humanism” from the “non-humanist?” Readers will encounter a wide-range of perspectives on the terms bringing together this volume, where “Humanism” “Non-Humanist” and “World” are not taken for granted, but instead, tackled from a wide variety of perspectives, spaces, discourses, and approaches. This volume offers both a pragmatic and scholarly account of these terms and worldviews allowing for multiple points of analytical and practical points of entry into the unfolding dialogue between humanism and the non-humanist world. In this way, this volume is attentive to both theoretically and historically grounded inquiry and applied practical application.
