Cary Wolfe: Well, let's start by acknowledging that the subject of "humanism" itself is a vast one, and there are many different varieties of it — liberal humanism, the humanism associated with the Renaissance, "secular humanism," so on and so forth.
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"In Italy, they put the body at the center of all design; it's humanism, and in humanism the human figure is always the key," said Ms. Clearwater.
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His brand of enlightened humanism should remind us Christians of what our faith is all about: that God has given us Christ to show us what humanism truly is.
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Harari imagines that in attempting to refine ourselves to utter perfection — the logical apotheosis of humanism, whose history and evolution he traces over many pages — we will destroy humanism itself.
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"Some see humanism as an obligation to let a lot of Muslims into your country, but that's not how I see humanism," he said in a phone interview from Copenhagen.
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" Secular humanism, briefly, bills itself as a "naturalist philosophy.
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When he posted the interview on his own website, Spencer retitled it "The Alt Right and Secular Humanism," leaving no doubt that he sees atheism and humanism as linked to his cause.
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Non-democratic models, which are challenging European humanism like never before.
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Do we perhaps need a new humanism for the 21st century?
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In his studies of the humanist Coluccio Salutati, chancellor of Florence in the late 215th century, and in two sweeping works, "'In the Footsteps of the Ancients': The Origins of Humanism From Lovato to Bruni" (21989) and "The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy" (22001), Professor Witt persuasively revised previous ideas about the evolution of Italian humanism.
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A handful of European thinkers who were born a few centuries ago set our species firmly on the path of progress with their compelling commitment to science, reason, and humanism (where humanism means "maximizing human flourishing").
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Other readers suggested that "egalitarianism" and "humanism" might be more appropriate labels.
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Like Brahms, Shaw founded an intense spirituality on humanism rather than religiosity.
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Donald Beach, who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated.
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It's also the amount of humanism we put into our various animals.
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Its editors had concluded that his brand of folksy humanism was passé.
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Robots seem to fall beyond such humanism, since they lack bodily freedom.
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That's why atheist humanism—the basis of any "pluralist society"—is doomed.
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Each series prioritized humanism and interpersonal drama over budget prosthetics and technobabble.
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As humanism and moderate religion have withered, gloom has pervaded that national mind.
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Jesse D. Hendrich, a minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated. Mrs.
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What most of these books had in common was their anti-millenarian humanism.
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Several of his essays were collected in "Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric" (2001).
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The other really widespread way of doing atheism these days is secular humanism.
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The shift to post-humanism has left the world beauty-poor and meaning-deprived.
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In some sense, the humanism of AI will eventually be what brings us together.
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Today the biggest threat to humanism is authoritarian regimes, but also political religious ideology.
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The couple's friend, Peter Prohaska, a minister with the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated.
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TO FIGHT AGAINST THIS AGE On Fascism and Humanism By Rob Riemen 176 pp.
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Yet humanism has been seen in some quarters as unfashionable, or unachievable, or both.
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The children never knew anything but humanism and never understood their parents' final dilemma.
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When he speaks of liberalism and humanism, he is accused of being a leftist.
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Thoughtful descriptions of how humanism can (and has) been co-opted and driven awry.
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Definitely. Super inspired by Kurt Vonnegut and his humanism, as well as social work stuff.
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In 2016, she received a Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Humanist Hub.
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In particular, children must receive good, balanced teaching on ethics, religion and belief, including humanism.
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I want to defend European authors and European creativity, because this is how humanism spreads.
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" The old writer is delighted; Adam, as Charlie has observed, is a "triumph of humanism.
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Her art jolts the 24-hour doom-and-gloom news cycle with humor and humanism.
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On the one hand, rights discourse is Exhibit A for the problems with philosophical humanism.
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Professor Witt was a disciple of the eminent German historians Hans Baron, who coined the term "civic humanism" to describe the political culture of 153th-century Florence, and Paul Oskar Kristeller, who emphasized the work of medieval rhetoricians in preparing the ground for Renaissance humanism.
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"Posthumanism" doesn't mean "anti-humanism" in any of these senses, nor does it simply mean something that comes historically "after" humanism, as if in 1968 or 1972 or whenever, the scales suddenly fell from our eyes and we realized the error of our ways.
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Bonnette, a former social worker, injects AJJ's songs with themes of self-reliance, kindness, and humanism.
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Mr Bannon denounces liberal and secular humanism in the name of the "Judeo-Christian" Western world.
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All of them look to replace God with some form of secular humanism, science or politics.
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And Paul's fanaticism draws Carrère's religious admiration, even as it repels and alienates his French humanism.
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The moral purpose of that civilization was the conversion of raw wealth into beauty and humanism.
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" He added that it also "confronts us with the limits of his humanism, his intellectual elitism.
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A given manifestation of Islam might be influenced by Western Christianity, Southeast Asian animism, or secular humanism.
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But the show maintains the fundamental optimism and humanism it had in the '90 and early '00s.
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But the life sciences are now undermining free will and individualism, which are the foundations of humanism.
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ENLIGHTENMENT NOW The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress By Steven Pinker 556 pp. Viking. $35.
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When we talk about humanism — we're all the same, and we share the same experiences — that's false.
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By this reckoning, Petrarch, far from being the founding father of humanism, belonged to its third generation.
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Posthumanism ends its route, inevitably, in a place that much resembles humanism, or at least the humane.
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What is it for you, and how does it challenge the standard, liberal humanism we're familiar with?
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Amichai has many modes, but a faithful and fortifying humanism is his commonest and his most delightful.
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Digital photographer Jeffery Scott is one such artist exploring post-humanism in a world following a singularity.
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And a surprising number are cultural pessimists who despise the Enlightenment ideals of reason, science, humanism, and progress.
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But the extremists of the right kill humanism, and that's the only thing that could save us all.
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But they also deploy a fierce anti-authoritarianism and humanism that runs through all of Dr. Seuss's books.
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Dorothy Muson, a minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated at the Penn Club of New York.
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"What can tame man, when the role of humanism as the school for humanity has collapsed?" he wrote.
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Some also refer to humanism, a wider encompassing belief that roots itself in the potential of human beings.
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A few of his literary opinions here: He deplores the soggy humanism of Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck.
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The liberalism that came after humanism may be what keeps his memory alive and draws us to him.
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The close and intimate photographs add a bit of humanism to the ordinary features of our furry friends.
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Cybele Fishman, the groom's sister, who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism for the occasion, officiated.
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Unabashedly feminist in outlook, it mixed humor, humanism, history and politics in another trove of stylistically varied songs.
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The beats update their sound while retaining continuity; the lyrics lend political specificity to their characteristic conscious black humanism.
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"Europe was a civilized, modern society which was supposed to uphold humanism, democracy, freedom, and human rights," he said.
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Putting their affinity for, say, fiscal conservatism above racial solidarity empowers their humanism from the perspective of these men.
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The Iranians insist nobody asked for those masterpieces of Classical humanism to be hidden: another case of nobody's decision.
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Through the Enlightenment and a reliance on positivist humanism, secular culture undermined national identity, particularly the concept of freedom.
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The question of the interplay of humanism and the law has deep roots in the intellectual history of Germany.
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Be grateful there's still a nation where a fellow can preach an ostensibly apolitical humanism with a clear conscience.
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The work questions who are we as a species, without resorting to universalizing platitudes, or a cheery, superficial humanism.
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Instead of comforting people with the good news of Jesus, he'd preach secular humanism, a kinder cousin of atheism.
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In July 2014 Campolo flew to Boston to talk with Epstein for three days about the future of humanism.
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Not so long ago, Denmark prided itself on its humanism, generous foreign aid budget and welcoming attitude toward foreigners.
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The Flaming Lips situate their own music in extreme contrasts: humanism and horror, Day-Glo colors and widow's black.
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Is there really an ideal, "natural" baseline that people can genetically enhance themselves to meet, without sliding into post-humanism?
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Jonathan D. Williams, who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated, with Brian Droste leading the ceremony. Mrs.
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With some 100,000 people employed across various continents, Danone's culture focuses on four key values: humanism, openness, proximity and enthusiasm.
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You have spoken about the essential value of humanism as being the essence of what Europe brought to the world.
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It lacks the obvious moral urgency of a Spotlight or the contemplative poetry, and maybe even humanism, of a Moonlight.
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This experience and the Vivarini exposure to Paduan classicism and humanism left a palpable mark on the studio's subsequent works.
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Well, transgender is when you're transcending gender and transitioning your gender, and transhumanism is transcending humanism and humanity for technology.
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The people of France were willing to apply the principles of humanism over the forces of fear and narrow-mindedness.
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He just listens to Richard Feynman lectures, he loves all forms of science, but also a great humanism to him.
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This humanism, as well as his fidelity to representation, has given Mr Hockney a broad popular appeal from the get-go.
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And even post-humanism, assuming that we reach it one day, will remain marked by the economic rationality which currently dominates.
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The minimum teaching programme would be determined by an advisory council representing a range of religions and belief systems, including humanism.
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These days, it expresses the determination of Protestants and Catholics to work together and roll back the tide of godless humanism.
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But if Lovecraft evokes existential dread through his brand of monster-flick nihilism, Rick & Morty counters it with a deep humanism.
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The covenant between humanism and science has defined modern society: the latter helps people achieve the goals set by the former.
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How do you reconcile that question of humanity and humanism and the requirements of realpolitik in a hostile and dangerous world?
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But if one claims to be making "the case for humanism," as Pinker does, isn't the way people live also important?
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"Tharlo" instead opts for fleeting charm and shaggy humanism, until the narrative takes a grim turn that's both trite and sexist.
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One of my major focuses as the director African Americans for Humanism is to help start local groups in different cities.
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The humanism that has to exist before liberalism can even begin is what Montaigne is there to show us still. ♦
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The two cultures did not proceed in succession, with literary humanism superseding the medieval, scholastic world of the law, he argued.
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"Before Salutati, humanism was a movement consisting of scattered geniuses without a center," Professor Witt told the reference work Contemporary Authors.
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Humanism will be replaced by Dataism; and if the humanist revolution made us masters the Dataist revolution will make us pets.
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Dr. Catherine DeVoe, a friend of the couple who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism for the event, officiated.
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One story, "The Problem With Humanism and All Lives Matter," made the case why the counter–Black Lives Matter slogan was misguided.
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However, what we're left with instead is an ending so insistent of its own humanism that it reveals its total lack thereof.
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In Bong's debut feature, "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000), the humanism is all but buried in a gruesome, urban-legend-inflected conceit.
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But the use of Shem's book in medical schools, book clubs, and departments of medical humanism and ethics is largely inward-looking.
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This existential hole was filled by a new religion, humanism, that "sanctifies the life, happiness and power of Homo sapiens", he writes.
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"What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom?" the pope asked on Friday.
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It represents a generation in agreement with Baldwin when he said that he no longer believed in the lies of pretended humanism.
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The most notorious episode occurred in 1999, after Sloterdijk published "Rules for the Human Zoo," an essay about the fate of humanism.
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The foundation has also inducted 30,000 students, residents and faculty into its Gold Humanism Honor Society to recognize their compassionate patient care.
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The company's brand of humanism was shaped at a time when oppressed minorities had few opportunities to make their voices heard, however.
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"To drop the connection between humanism and architecture is of course extremely frightening," Mr. Koolhaas tells me when we leave Koppert Cress.
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" Jobs are disappearing, subfields are evaporating, enrollment has tanked, and amid the wreckage the custodians of humanism are "befuddled and without purpose.
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He embodies empathetic humanism, and if there is any justice in the world, he'll be recognized in every awards lineup this fall.
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The book represented freedom for me with epic set pieces and a genuinely moving humanism pulsing beneath the playful and revolutionary surface postmodernism.
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The two survivors, locked in a philosophical struggle between Carol's brutal pragmatism and Morgan's spiritual humanism, finally squared off in the midseason finale.
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Basically, I think that European humanism, in order to win, needs to become sovereign once again and to rediscover a form of realpolitik.
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It's almost impossible for a filmmaker to face those squarely, without succumbing either to exploitative misery-mongering or to vaguely progressive sentimental humanism.
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Germany has been pushing the European Union for collective action that will share the burden but also respect principles of solidarity and humanism.
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But with the pizza deliveries, they appeared to bask in their own relative serenity and yet another feel-good moment reaffirming their humanism.
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In Athens, a biennale offers a critique of humanism, Marxism, capitalism, identity politics, and everything in between, but fails to explore pragmatic solutions.
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Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Zeev Jabotinsky, David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir always emphasized the need to combine Jewish nationalism with universal humanism.
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After focusing so keenly on the nonhuman, Cunningham may not have apprehended the unrelenting humanism and tenderness through which he would be remembered.
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"The Epic" loops in elements of 1970s funk and 1980s R&B without abandoning jazz's guiding ethic — one of earnest and determined humanism.
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Then Jocelyn Smith, an electrician for "Beautiful," told Ms. Weeks that she was an ordained minister with the online Church of Spiritual Humanism.
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But we must also ask how this illiberal wind has taken hold in spite of our well-intentioned avowal of egalitarianism and humanism.
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Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven PinkerLove him or hate him, neuroscientist Steven Pinker is never not interesting.
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Waging "holy war" against secular humanism, he "introduced the fundamentalist sense of perpetual crisis, and of war between the forces of good and evil".
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Both Kenner and Davenport echo their master in this juvenile habit, a failure of the humanism that is the hallmark of their best work.
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Part audio-visual installation, part cybercunt, Fake Accent reflects on digital humanism and borderless cities to ask a question: How do we come together?
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But the new humanism Kandel admirably invites might require something more drastic as well: a departure from purely brain-focused views of mental life.
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The parents considered their sectarianism the realization of humanism — until their interrogators forced them to choose, and to die, one way or the other.
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The ideals that nurtured this ever-larger vision of Europe — freedom of movement and humanism — are clearly under threat on a number of fronts.
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But the central essays are the ones that deal with the existential questions, the ways that humanism tries — and lately fails — to justify itself.
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His op-ed preceded the release of his new book, "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, " which was released Tuesday.
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Countering the warm humanism and leftist politics of the muralists, Mr. Cuevas offered an existentialist's view of the human condition, with hopelessness a given.
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Possibly. But as Black Mirror is eager to remind us, the possibility of seeing humanism, not nihilism, succeed is why we keep tuning in.
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The influence of these mentors is readily visible in Draper's early work: Smith's darkroom wizardry, Feinstein's unsentimental humanism, DeCarava's concern with light and shadow.
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To his fans, the episode epitomised the Yevtushenko they adored: an idealist who spoke for his generation, a man whose humanism transcended the cold war.
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The most shocking thing about Bong's films might be their sincerity, the warm humanism that flickers through the chronicles of spite, sloth and self-delusion.
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As the peril increases by the day, she will be missed for her righteousness and clarity of thought as much as her humanity and humanism.
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NICK GIANNOUKAKIS PITTSBURGH To the Editor: In "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" (review, March 4), Steven Pinker's optimism is misplaced.
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Emphasizing certain transcendent themes in Western humanism, they advocated the universalism of human rights and denigrated any and all attachment to particular nations or cultures.
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There is a delicate humanism at work here that feels especially refreshing, a commitment to respecting differences without sacrificing a clear ethical point of view.
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Many of us, including myself, would agree that many of the ethical aspirations of humanism are quite admirable and we should continue to pursue them.
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"A great interpreter of this new humanism, how he himself likes to call it," Mr. Di Maio said through a gritted smile on Wednesday night.
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"A great interpreter of this new humanism, how he himself likes to call it," Mr. Di Maio said through a gritted smile on Wednesday night.
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Into the Inferno is less interested in science than it is in humanism, in prodding the civilizations that live in the shadow of these volcanoes.
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But most of the time, Trump will probably live down to the low expectations people who value policy expertise and cosmopolitan humanism have of him.
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DANIEL HOLMESMiami Modern-day liberalism, having become inextricably linked with secular humanism, has a collective blind spot with respect to the passions commanded by religious belief.
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Both these films have a touching humanism, and a real interest in exploring people's insecurities and the narratives they create to justify selfish or destructive behavior.
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On the contrary, the force of Mr. Sembène's art — the sheer beauty that is the most striking feature of his early films — lies in his humanism.
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Not only is authentic optimism not data-driven, but it may have to be established by heirs of reason and humanism who make Pinker look complacent.
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Later, as one of the most influential artists and art theorists of the 20th century in Europe, Beuys explored questions of humanism, empathy and cultural mythologies.
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He awkwardly tried to reconcile the notion of "America First" with a global outreach and planetary humanism designed to appease and placate his largely international audience.
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In difficult times, a country turns to the values that always defined it — literature, ideas, fashion, humanism and cuisine — and lifts its head to be proud.''
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His focus is on universal humanism as a magical discourse full of imaginary and visionary transactions, as seen in his rather refined aquarelle "Dialogues I" (2017).
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If you are unfamiliar, Post humanism is a rich and fascinating subject that explores how we envision ourselves in an age of technological innovation and information.
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It's tempting to mock Meinecke's faith in the power of humanism — poetry, literature, philosophy, music, art — to save Germany, and potentially the world, from political extremism.
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Because though intersectionality cloaks itself in the garb of humanism, it takes a Manichaean view of life in which there can only be oppressors and oppressed.
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Cole's questioning, tentative habit of mind, suspending judgment while hoping for the brief miracle of insight, is a form of what used to be called humanism.
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Many would agree, but see a solution within humanism itself, for example in talk of human rights and the inclusion of animal rights and environmental protections.
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How gratifying and unexpected that he has repeated the feat with "Lincoln in the Bardo," his first novel and a luminous feat of generosity and humanism.
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His flaw was a lack of patience with his own deeply felt humanism, self-censoring even his love of Beethoven in pursuit of the public good.
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It viewed humanism, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution all as historical disasters that took man further away from a transcendental perennial truth.
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Yet the debate is widening cleavages between those championing Jewish nationalism and what others deem the Jewish values of charity and humanism that also underpin the state.
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Camus's humanism didn't have room for Breton's joking tongue-in-cheek nihilism or Marx's deadly serious historical thinking, but he did have certain insights about their incompatibility.
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Agnosticism is often considered a form of humanism, or the worldview that spirituality can be derived from rational, scientific, and moral thought (as opposed to anything divine).
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Then there was humanism, the belief that people are learning more and more, inventing more and more, and so history is a steady accumulation of good things.
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The exhibition presents a fresh and nuanced perspective on the longstanding binary between body and machine – suggesting a new kind of humanism for the post-human age.
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Dr. Charles M. Wiener, who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism and is also the godfather of Mr. Warshauer, officiated at Valentine, an events space.
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At a time like this, I couldn't decide if my visit to a museum was an indulgent luxury or a reaffirmation of the city's vital artistic humanism.
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My argument is that secularism and secular humanism are outgrowths of Judeo-Christian thought and Greek philosophy that has evolved over the course of several thousand years.
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Many moments such as these, combined with Elio's parents' tolerance of and basic empathy with their son's desires, make the film an example of an unexpectedly fresh humanism.
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Like literature everywhere, however, that of modern China expresses a confounding mix of history, humanism and aesthetics; it has always done far more than reflect its political context.
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Hopeful as he may be, Mr McDonagh does not have any practical answers to America's problems, but neither does he allow his humanism to excuse the festering brutality.
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Earlier this year, Harvard awarded Fisher the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism for her career as an artist and her work as a mental health activist.
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Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, has been arguing for years that this is an illusion.
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In a political atmosphere that has become openly hostile toward science and humanism, now more than ever we must strive for reason and integrity in medicine and health.
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Mary Patricia Kelly, who is the bride's godmother and was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism for the ceremony, officiated at St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University.
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It is crucial that she balance humanism on the refugee issue with a reassessment of her country's priorities on economic issues, allowing closer economic union and promoting growth.
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It is easy enough to poke holes in his romantic view of himself and the world, but it's also hard to deny the infectious humanism that drove him.
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But I am dazzled by Mr. del Toro's ability to mobilize old-movie tropes and movie-geek scholarship with the heart-on-the-sleeve humanism he displays here.
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Oz pitches the book's heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last, as befits a writer who understands how vital a political role a novelist can play.
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These programs tend to relate to the values that Vonnegut championed: suicide prevention, civil rights, support for teachers, humanism, freedom of speech, and a love of literature and reading.
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I'd lost faith in the religion of my parents, grandparents, and pioneer ancestors, and found a home in what I now realize amounted to a sort of basic humanism.
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This week, new public art is unveiled with New York's new Second Avenue subway, the end of humanism, the US media's problem with fascism, the gentrification cycle, and more.
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"A Europe capable of giving birth to a new humanism based on three capacities: the capacity to integrate, the capacity for dialogue and the capacity to generate," he said.
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As he noted in 2002, a number of American intellectuals in the final decade of the twentieth century made Isaiah Berlin, "the image of enlightened humanism," their guiding star.
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Among Maier's possessions were more than 100,000 negatives — a startling body of work imbued with the humanism of Robert Frank and Lisette Model but a mischief all its own.
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A new BBC/Starz mini-series written by Kenneth Lonergan emphasizes Forster's deep humanism over the sumptuous Edwardian period details underlined in the beloved 20606 Merchant-Ivory film rendition.
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Most popular then were the thematic pavilions, with names like "Man the Explorer" or "Man in the Community," whose exhibits fused a thoroughgoing humanism with audacious, immersive image technologies.
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"Montaigne's humanism, as it was conceptualized starting in 1585, implies a renunciation of politics," he declares, and elsewhere he sees in Montaigne a sort of false dawn of liberalism.
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Ms. Vogel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, considers the play — with its reverence for books and great thinkers, represented by Mr. Antrobus's cherished personal library — a defense of Western humanism.
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And the evening, at its best, was both a demonstration of, and an argument for, the value of pluralism, for expansive humanism as an antidote to narrowness and intolerance.
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Instead of making the viewer uncomfortable, Jojo Rabbit gives contemporary audiences more of what they want: a warmed-over, feel-good humanism, and generalized sentiments about love trumping hate.
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We see this most fully today, as Cary Wolfe suggested, in the intellectual moves toward post-humanism and the bestowing of rights both to humans and to other animals.
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But there's grief in it, and mortal comedy, and a covert humanism doused in vinegar: Aldrich once protested to Elaine that his bill for the night was too high.
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Will the work of the future bring ever-ballooning inequality under the guise of what is ultimately the slick, self-serving "philanthropy" of Billionaire Humanism and Winners Take All?
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This year in particular, the festival has done an excellent job of bringing together movies with radically distinct visual styles and a common sense of down-to-earth humanism.
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He argues, for instance, that secular humanism is really monotheism in disguise, where humankind is God and salvation can be achieved through our own efforts rather than through divine intervention.
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This passionate defense of the Enlightenment ideals of scientific rationalism and secular humanism argues that human progress is a measurable fact and that the current moment is the best ever.
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"With humanism came some renewed respect for women, but they were legally considered minors, owned by fathers and husbands, or else destined to spend their lives in convents," Siciliano explains.
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" She added: "When we get to celebrate excellence in film like we're doing today, like we're doing this week, we can't forget that this industry is in the business of humanism.
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"I hope they understand and respect enough of what makes Star Trek completely unique from a lot of other science fiction, namely the humanism and the sense of optimism," she says.
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Her message of "small is beautiful" can be taken as an expression of her humanism; yet her antigovernment, pro-business stance is more congenial to libertarians than to city-dwelling liberals.
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They all stood for substantially the same policies, but Romney at least tried to make a pretense of making empiricism and humanism important, a stance which failed to excite the base.
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Other holdouts include the religious, still caught up in dead mythologies, and a motley collection of populists and terrorists, who appear united by their rejection of humanism, whatever their stated grievances.
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On Wednesday, security forces repressed protests in Lubumbashi in which 10 died and 47 were wounded, said King Kasongo, a lawyer and activist for Humanism and Human Rights, a nongovernmental organization.
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Lyndon Johnson echoed these ideas in his calls for a "Great Society," a program remembered for its war on poverty but whose other half was a utopia of leisured middle-class humanism.
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Dr. Drew W. Calhoun, a friend of the couple who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism to preside at this event, officiated at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio.
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While the standard form of communication in the working world is email, words on a screen prevent others from hearing the confidence and humanism in your voice as you demonstrate your expertise.
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It began with an authoritative statement by Maxim Gorky in his article "Proletarian Humanism," which appeared in May 1934 and was much approved of by Stalin, or possibly even commissioned by him.
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"Her uncompromising humanism, wrought by the horror of the camps, made her the constant ally of the weakest, and the resolute enemy of any political compromise with the extreme right," he said.
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When Sanders talks about his faith, Epstein noted, he says things like "all life is connected" and "we're all in this together"—phrases that fit nicely into the progressive secularism that characterizes humanism.
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Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates This landmark book on race and politics in America may very well also be the quintessential text on humanism and atheism of this generation.
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"The problem is that those statues — yes, those icons of classicism and models of humanism — are the foundation of European and Mediterranean culture and civilization," the columnist Michele Serra wrote in La Repubblica.
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Their intent was safeguard children from secularization, not racial integration, but their schools had been unfairly and illegally targeted by a federal government hell-bent on making secular humanism the nation's false faith.
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He was a prolific critic, influenced by Marxism and a deep, even radical sense of humanism, and has been a staple in art and cultural studies classrooms on several continents since the 1970s.
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"I want to thank you for this position, and express hope, that the decision — dictated most of all by humanism — will lead to an easing of the tensions" in Ukraine, Mr. Putin said.
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Humanism is broader in that it does not only give the sense of what is unimportant to the person, but it also gives you a sense of what is important to the person.
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He described himself as a "fascist of the right" and Godard as a "fascist of the left" but somehow his essential humanism intersected with Godard's overweening didactics to make something new, fresh, exciting.
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Taken together, they may not always make the strongest case for Ashby's cinematic genius (the films themselves are greater proof), and there's also a bit too much vague talk about humanism and individuality.
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The humanism of this film, directed by Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson, is shadowed by an inescapable pessimism, an intimation that kindness, while essential, may not be enough when survival is at stake.
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Bong's great skill as a director is soulful social satire, juxtaposing the absurd with surprisingly touching moments that help his films retain the kind of humanism that is sometimes absent in satirical works.
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Bourdain was not incredibly anti-capitalist or anything so radical as that, but his big-hearted humanism suggested that an obsession with economic progress has stamped out a necessary focus on human progress.
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The situation in Turkey isn't isolated; it's part of a fault line of major historical events throughout the world that are causing humanism and humanity to crack under the pressure of capital and fantasy.
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Enlightenment Now is a passionate defense of enlightenment values of "reason, science, and humanism" in a society that falls back on destructive tendencies like "tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, [and] magical thinking" in times of crisis.
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As a director, Bong's great skill is soulful social satire, juxtaposing the absurd with surprisingly touching moments that help his films retain a kind of humanism that can sometimes be lacking in satirical works.
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Political action is one response to this situation, but Olmi's Christian humanism, while hardly apolitical, points him in a different direction, toward the ineradicable dignity of the individual and the startling beauty of creation.
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The triumph of "The Producers" is to suppose a world where the anxious hopes of Chaplin and Lubitsch have come true — where fascism has been expunged, its spell permanently broken by humanism and humor.
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The question is not why nonreligious Americans vote for these candidates — there is no one on the ballot who full-throatedly endorses nonreligious humanism — but why candidates themselves ignore the growing group of secular voters.
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"The force of Mr. Sembène's art — the sheer beauty that is the most striking feature of his early films — lies in his humanism," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times on the film's 50th anniversary.
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It is an argument in which B.H.L. attempts to pick out "the Jewish thread" from the larger fabric of his engagé humanism and his identity as a Frenchman enamored of French literary and philosophical traditions.
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" Maybe what all of this underscores is that any hope most of us might have for a benign future of work is increasingly projected on to what I've come to think of as "billionaire humanism.
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The Founders were adherents of classical republicanism—also known as civic republicanism or civic humanism, an older democratic doctrine conceived around the common political good and the welfare of society as a whole—before modern liberalism.
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What Christianity and secular humanism share is more important than their differences: No other religious tradition—Jewish, Greek, Indian, Chinese—envisions history as linear rather than cyclical or conceives of humanity as a unitary collective subject.
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"Her uncompromising humanism, wrought by the horror of the camps, made her the constant ally of the weakest, and the resolute enemy of any political compromise with the extreme right," his office said in a statement.
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In contrast, the fallen angels are the side of goodness and right in the moral universe of this trilogy, and they stand for the arts and sciences, for secular humanism, and for the pleasures of the body.
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It's a tradition that runs deeps: this is where Baruch Spinoza (20043-1677) laid the philosophical ground for the Enlightenment, and indeed where a cleric called Erasmus (1466-1532) tried to transcend Christian sectarianism and embrace humanism.
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As with any work that deals exclusively with objects sans humans lately, these photographs risk being associated with some current schools of thought in contemporary theory, namely such "new materialisms" as speculative realism, post-humanism, and accelerationism.
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Although a title that translates "another white" indicates that he's speaking out for his fellow albinos, still oppressed as freaks or worse in many African cultures, the lyrics his label sent me are standard sincere African humanism.
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In recognizing her work, with its themes of finding humanity and love amid apocalyptic change, Hugo voters sent a message that they would not allow blights like racism to undermine the sci-fi community's humanism and idealism.
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The emergence of humanism, which was concerned with texts from Greece and Rome and addressed the role of the divine, demanded that people use this inevitability to consider the purpose of their existence, and their spiritual afterlife.
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They take both science and humanism deeply seriously, which is why it's so satisfying to watch Chiang's shining, intricate machine at work: You know that whatever the machine builds, it will tell you something new about human beings.
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As Pinker says in a recent Quillette interview: I use "the Enlightenment" as a handy rubric for that set of ideals [reason, science, and humanism] (since their most vehement and enduring expression can be found in that era).
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It could be a measure of D'Agostino's humanism that the distance between heaven and hell — the Platonic shapes of the Alphabet vis-à-vis the crustaceous bottom feeders of the Translations — is the length of the human body.
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And I think that the spread of values, of the humanism that we hold high, and the universalisation of these values in which I believe, only work to the extent that you are able to convince the people.
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It would be easy to laugh at this spectacle, with its beloved leaders and mad smilers, if the whole thing were not so heart-rending and tragic, and if Mr. Herzog's gruff humanism didn't bring you to tears.
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This is the paradox of literature, which is also the glory of humanism: the idea that nothing human is alien to any of us, that we all have the power to imagine our way into one another's lives.
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Basel became a center for humanism and publishing following the establishment of the University of Basel in 1460, attracting a host of noteworthy writers and scholars, most notably Erasmus, who published the New Testament in Greek in 1516.
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Annie Dorsen said that although her father had been committed to the bedrock values of Enlightenment humanism — he kept a bust of Voltaire in his house — he had acknowledged the effect that luck had in shaping his career.
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O. 2020 seems to be the year of the hybrid memoir, and Doty's is a masterful example — weaving a close reading of Whitman's life and writings into Doty's own ruminations on art, queerness, humanism, and the American experience.
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Billionaire humanism is a world in which, as Ghiridaradas pointed out to me for TechCrunch, we invent every manner of new shit, and yet life expectancy goes down, literacy goes down, and overall health and well-being decline.
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The film's characters represent India's own cultural diversity; Naina's Punjabi family contains members who are Christian and Sikh, while Rohit's family is Gujarati — a positive mix of subcultures within the Indian diaspora that enhanced the film's feel-good humanism.
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Before his death, Malcolm X managed to channel the rage he had over being terrorized by white supremacy, first into crime, then into black nationalism with the Nation of Islam, and finally into a sort of global-minded humanism.
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Cucinelli went on to become a regular guest at Dreamforce, the annual conference for Benioff's company in San Francisco, where the designer spoke about humanism in tech in a 2017 keynote speech that included a "fireside chat" with Benioff.
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I think that the mistake of secular humanism is to believe, like the French Revolution believed, that you "strangle the last king with the entrails of the last priest," and that what arises is some sort of glorious utopia.
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"One of the primary characteristics of the Renaissance was the incorporation of Humanism into all disciplines… yet I have always felt that there was an element missing that doesn't translate to contemporary social issues," Ventiko explains to The Creators Project.
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The supreme irony for those of us who have devoted our lives to humanism and culture is that our impossible ideal has in fact been realized — life and art have become inseparable — though not in a way we ever envisioned.
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While some humanists decisively do or do not believe in a god, an agnostic approach to god is in keeping with humanism because it dictates that it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of god through science alone.
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" From now on his poems would not face inward, toward the isolate individual, but outward, toward "our fellow men": "I had to pause and find the road to humanism, outlawed from contemporary literature but deeply rooted in the aspirations of mankind.
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Partly a cranky protest against the tyranny of technology — Daniel is a stranger to smartphones and computers — the film suggests that some of the political anger of our moment stems less from reactionary intolerance than from a stubborn and defensive humanism.
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"Evolutionary humanism" birthed some dehumanizing attitudes in the writings of Herbert Spencer, Ernst Haeckel, Julian Huxley, and H.G. Wells, who tended to view ordinary people as merely grist for the production of "men like gods," in Wells's famous (or infamous) phrase.
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As André Glucksmann, a contemporary French philosopher, has brilliantly described in his book Dostoievski in Manhattan, the driver of what today has become ISIS is the negation and destruction of all human values—a violent, barbarian, belligerent version of post-humanism.
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In "Dreams From My Father," he writes of arriving with "simple formulas for Third World solidarity," only to discover that most Kenyans "worked with older maps of identity, more ancient loyalties," and that his liberal humanism fell on deaf ears.
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Though it is gratifyingly informative — a visit to a nonprofit recycling depot in Brooklyn is as eye-opening as a great school field trip — "Canners" is a testament to its director's indefatigable humanism, and to the human beings who feed it.
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This simple humanism, this clearly articulated reality, is what draws so many people to Frank Ocean, what makes people so impatient for his music, what makes that music so easy to deeply, personally identify with no matter who you are.
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Yet, that scene aside, the Dardennes can't be bothered to gesture toward systemic and institutional factors that affect this community; both their script and direction remain dedicated to the liberal humanism that has earned the pair praise for the past twenty years.
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In several books published over 15 years, Mr Gray has reasserted his belief that there is no God, while also attacking the liberal humanism that has emerged in God's stead—which, he thinks, is as flaky as the religion it has replaced.
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The act of discerning links between what Johnson has seen, and how she has seen it, reveals to us not just her conscious but her conscience — a deep and genuine humanism laced with ambivalence about some of the ethical issues of documentary filmmaking.
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With this film, he's back on the comparatively safe ground of Pixar principles: a lively celebrity cast, a fast-moving adventure full of chases and jokey repartee, and a basic humanism that persists even when none of the significant characters are human.
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He also employed sgraffito — scratching through a layer of paint to reveal what lies beneath — for a series of portraits, done just after the war, whose dark humanism rhymes with the existentialist philosophy then in fashion in the cafes of Saint-Germain.
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Planetary humanism At the same time, Trump tried to soften other parts of the address by trying to project the image of a leader who was by no means an isolationist or who saw America leading from anywhere else other than the front.
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As seen in this "special order" of MacArthur, the US imperialists did not hesitate to throw off their masks of so-called "civilization" and "humanism" and reveal their wolfish nature in order to retrieve themselves from their defeat in the Korean war.
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That argument is that Fred Rogers's worldview, a kind of humanism that had roots in Rogers's Christianity but expressed itself as a commitment to everyone's dignity, is what helped many navigate the scariest events of childhood (RFK's assassination, the Challenger shuttle explosion).
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Now that the Nordic climes have chilled him out, he hopes that Niceland will export not only Iceland's fish but its values, which he said include humanism, interconnectedness (ninety per cent of the population is on Facebook), and an appreciation for nature.
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In its early years, Heritage took up numerous political battles: It published papers advocating making Social Security voluntary, argued against giving striking workers access to food stamps and warned parents about the danger posed by the advancement of "secular humanism" in public schools.
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Merkel, seeking to stem growing criticism about her longtime leadership, underscored the core focus of her Christian Democratic party on economic conservatism, individual liberties and Christian humanism, while calling for efforts to recapture voters after heavy losses in the September national elections.
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"Humanism," for instance, ordinarily signifies, first, the revival of classical learning in the Italian Renaissance—the earliest self-described humanists were simply fourteenth-century experts in Latin grammar—which came to place a new value on corporeal beauty, antique wisdom, and secular learning.
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"While keeping in mind and respecting the sovereignty of the Polish state, we can not stay silent about the steps that threaten its very source, which is the untouchable values of European civilization, humanism and fundamental rights and freedoms," their statement said.
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Billionaire humanism is when we experience that as our daily reality, yet we are expected to be grateful for "progress," as if the current state of things is the best of all possible worlds and the future is sure to be as well.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Laura Aguilar, the photographer who documented her subjects with frank empathy and humanism — among them families, other artists, the queer Latinx and Chicanx communities of her native Los Angeles and, most tenderly, herself — died yesterday, on April 25.
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"You are a symbol of the country that formed you and are examples of the kind of men and women we aspire to be in Cuban society, based on justice and humanism," Diaz-Canel was cited as saying by Communist Party newspaper Granma on Friday.
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It is important to notice how notions of trans- and post-humanism ooze out of this work, in which the vision of distant futures is emptied of humans, peopled only by machines, shapes, and forms (also exploring the relationship between futurism, utopia, technology, and fascism).
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Veering from farce to sentimentality, infused throughout with the anarchic pop humanism Waititi has brought to projects as various as "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and "Thor: Ragnarok," it risks going wrong in a dozen different ways and manages to avoid at least half of them.
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The two best books he's read in 2018 so far are "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" by Steven Pinker and "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" by Hans Rosling.
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The image felt like a metonym for the series, which, for five seasons, has waved a flag of provocation against a background of tender, socially conscious, occasionally gooey humanism, an opiate combination that has made it a secret addiction for many women of my acquaintance.
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If the first section of "In the Fade" provides a series of snapshots of a contemporary German life — the hectic pleasures of its big cities; its ambivalent multiculturalism; its bureaucratic humanism — the second part zeros in on the gears of the country's legal system.
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Much maligned by critics over the years for its supposed mushy humanism, The Family of Man, which opened a five-month run at the Museum of Modern Art in January 1955 and later travelled through 37 countries, has nevertheless inspired generations of photographers worldwide.
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There is a spike of vitriol in his early work that seems distinct to Japan of that period, and in direct reaction to the post-war humanism seen in the films of Akira Kurosawa and "golden age" masters such as Yasujirō Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi.
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The singular body of work on view is a far cry from what rapidly became a commercial career focused on advertising and fashion; the stark difference suggests that the great humanism found in Youngsoo's images today is at least in part the product of historical serendipity.
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With a mix of ferocious draftsmanship, deeply probing investigations into human mindsets and behavior, and keen observations about the forces that shape and control the world today, Cahn's art does not shout or polemicize as much as it seduces with the potency of its unusually expressed humanism.
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The book does relay actionable tips about sex and confidence and shoe color (red, actually), but the active function of these tips is to impart an ethos that tells you how to live your whole life Heimel's philosophy is: sharp irreverence, independent permissiveness, blissed-out humanism.
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Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the forthcoming book "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress," emailed me his thoughts: The answer lies in raw tribalism: when someone is perceived as a champion of one's coalition, all is forgiven.
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Turning his attention to historical and literary developments in the city-state of Padua in the 13th century, Professor Witt, in "'In the Footsteps of the Ancients,'" pushed the birth of humanism back more than 50 years from its traditional date in the mid-14th century.
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The book—soon to be translated into French, English and Spanish—takes capitalism, which was forged at a time when there was only the question of surplus value and means of production, and looks at it through the prism of a modern world that is veering towards post-humanism.
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But though he cared deeply for the trappings of the myths from which he formed his "Ring," Wagner ultimately meant those horned helmets and realistically frolicking Rhinemaidens to be a vehicle for his philosophical preoccupations: tangled layers of social utopianism, anarchism, love-conquers-all humanism, renounce-the-world nihilism.
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Ronald G. Witt, a historian who redrew the map of the Renaissance through influential studies that identified the first stirrings of Italian humanism in a period well before the birth of its traditional father, Petrarch, died on March 21983 at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 215.
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Challenging to follow even though they're seldom slurred or speeded up, his lyrics evoke without defining a humorous humanism that takes the immaturity off his subcultural jousting and erotic ups and downs—and thus firms up the stuff that preoccupies most newbies who think you could never write shit like this.
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"It's born of the courage of a group of actors willing to strip to their souls and express their humanism inside mistake and misstep and misdeed,"Pitt said during his presentation of the film, which was named Best Film by the National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, according to Variety.
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Unlike his earlier book, "The Age of the Crisis of Man," which set out to trace American humanism and was unavailingly (sometimes ponderously) academic, this collection decodes subjects both Hi and Lo, from the meaning of life and the philosophy of contemporary warfare to the implications of rap and reality television.
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If 1994's Speed, in which he starred as an imperturbable bomb squad cop, embodied the optimism and humanism of the '90s, then 1999's Matrix, along with other iconic films from that year like Fight Club and The Blair Witch Project, marked a turn toward new millennium-related unease.
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" I reached out to Harris and asked him to expand on this idea, and here's what he said: "The bourgeois humanism of social democracy has flooded the engine of American revolt, but in the mascot's rabid eyes we recognize anew the unavoidable truth: The people have enemies and they must be destroyed.
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To the ears of film fans in 1997, that might not've tracked—Demme was then best known as the Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs—but Anderson was clearly drawing on the kooky warmth and everyday humanism of Demme's earlier ensemble pictures such as Citizen's Band and Melvin and Howard.
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Where, say, The Twilight Zone was held together by Rod Serling's introductory segments and the vague sense there would be a twist ending, Black Mirror is held together by its complicated balance of open-hearted humanism and a darkly gleeful sense that human beings have never met a situation they couldn't make worse.
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But if I wasn't going to separate the art from the artist in 2014, when I read the "Pamela, Part 1" scene in light of the gentle humanism that animated the show's best episodes, I'm sure as hell not going to start doing it now that I'm aware it has much more horrible connotations.
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Todd Gitlin, a sociologist and the author of books about the counterculture, said that "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," in seeking to reconcile humanism with technological progress, had been perfectly timed for a generation weary of the '33s revolt against a soulless high-tech world dominated by a corporate and military-industrial order.
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" Connell went on: "Pocock so emphasized the subordination of private wealth to the good of the commonwealth that for many American historians today the rhetoric of 'civic humanism' has come to stand for a kind of communitarianism, if not socialism, offering a response even to that hoary question, 'Why is there no socialism in the United States?
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In " Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress ," the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker looks at recent studies and finds that majorities in fourteen countries—Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the U.A.E., and the United States—believe that the world is getting worse rather than better.
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In a statement, Mr. Gilroy, whose seven books also include "Against Race" and "After Empire," described his work as a response to "the deficit of imagination that denies all human beings the same degree of humanity" and an effort to "rewrite humanism," which is dismissed by some as a mode of understanding based on racial and other hierarchies.
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It's a controversial issue — the facts of that claim have been widely disputed — but it amounts to a fascinating conversation between Said and the Buber legacy, because while Buber represents the height of humanism at its best, even he could be entangled in certain negative kinds of power that reinforced domination, in this case the domination of the Palestinians.
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Jacobs also depicts their attempt as a failure, because in the end neither a Christian humanism nor any other has been able to withstand the spirit of Conant, the spirit of technocratic ambition, the spirit of truth-replaced-by-useful-knowledge, that rules today not just in Washington and Silicon Valley but in much of academia as well.
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This case has kind of succeeded, but we, as a society, will not have succeeded until the moment not just when men are afraid to do this because they might actually be punished, but when the desire to harm women and the entitlement to harm women disappears — when some kind of common humanism and common nonviolence becomes the norm.
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Having this experience of other people (or of fictional simulacra of people) is an annoyingly persistent habit of actual humans, no matter how many convincing theoretical arguments attempt to bracket and contain the impulse, to carefully unhook it from transcendental ideas, or simply to curse it by one of its many names: realism, humanism, naturalism, figuration.
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Yet where a dramatic opera traditionally announces itself with bombast, The Ferryman — about a family living under the cyclical sway of political violence in Northern Ireland — is infused throughout with a deliberate lightness, a joyous humanism that attempts to counterbalance all the weight it's carrying: the weight of history, of life under oppression, of personal and communal secrets.
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For all its satirical jabs at bourgeois mores and self-involved artists (a MacArthur "genius" grant is name-checked, in passing), "Marriage Story" is suffused with humanism and forgiveness — a tone that people familiar with Baumbach's real-life split from Jennifer Jason Leigh might find more than a little self-serving, but that saves the enterprise from being insufferably maudlin.
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Retrospectively, this looks like the last gasp of belief in incremental but progressive change toward a better future through the attainment of ever greater knowledge, although, ironically, we could argue that the death of Modernism brought with it an opening for the voices that were previously marginalized or silenced and was in fact further progress and an expansion of Enlightenment humanism.
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American readers who are rightly worried about similarly distressing developments in the United States will feel fortified by the publication of "To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism," which brings these two pieces together in a single slim volume and establishes Riemen as an erudite, well-meaning and inspiring ally in the struggle to combat anti-liberal political trends.
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"Of course, there is a certain Indian-ness about me, the humanism, and an ability to approach the business in a holistic manner," he added, although holism may be a euphemistic way of describing the managed chaos entailed in creating a line of men's wear whose elements of traditional crafts are incorporated so subtly that a wearer registers them only slowly.
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