Towards a New Literary Humanism [electronic resource] /
Mousley, A.editor.
Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a 'new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Literature as Ersatz theology : deep selves -- pt. 2. Scepticism, or humanism at the limit -- pt. 3. Literature, democracy, humanisms from below.
Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a 'new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature.
Ethics.
Literature—Philosophy.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Ethics.
Literary Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.