Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.

List of contents

Preface
1. Humanism, Human/Animal, Human-Being
2. Democracy’s Anarchy
Coda: Against the Politics of the Sacred
Index

About the author

Stathis Gourgouris is professor of classics, English, and comparative literature and society at Columbia University. He is the author of several books on political philosophy, aesthetics, and poetics, the most recent being The Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019).

Summary

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.

Product details

• Authors: Stathis Gourgouris, Gourgouris Stathis
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2024
• EAN: 9780231215152
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21515-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Political structures: democracy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion, philosophy; religion; political science