Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction Towards a Critical Humanism; Chapter 1: Romantic Humanism; (Shakespeare - Marx - Cixous); Chapter 2: Existential Humanism; (Sartre - Arendt - Fanon); Chapter 3: Dialogic Humanism; (Freud - Irigaray - Levinas); Chapter 4: Civic Humanism; (Wollstonecraft - Habermas - Hall); Chapter 5: Spiritual Humanism; (Benjamin - King - Kristeva); Chapter 6: Pagan Humanism; (Bakhtin - Nietzsche - Bataille); Chapter 7: Pragmatic Humanism; (James - Dewey - Rorty); Chapter 8: Technological Humanism; (Foucault - Baudrillard - Haraway); Conclusion: Inhuman, Posthuman, Transhuman, Human; Endnotes; General Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. His most recent authored books include American Culture in the 1950s (EUP, 2007), Transatlantic Modernism: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction (EUP, 2005), The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film (Ashgate, 2004). Andrew Mousley is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of Critical Humanisms (2003, with Martin Halliwell), Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Literary Theory (2000) and the editor of New Casebooks: John Donne (1999). He is the co-editor of the Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature series.

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An extensive and profitable study ! Critical Humanisms is an expansive and multifaceted consideration. An extensive and profitable study ! Critical Humanisms is an expansive and multifaceted consideration.