Humanism of the Other

Author: Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028403
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
This work, a philosophical reaction to prevailing nihilism in the 1960's is urgent reading today when a new sort of nihilism, parading in the very garments of humanism, threatens to engulf our civilization. ---- A key text in Levinas' work, introduces the concept of the humanity of each human being as only understood and discovered through understanding the humanity of others first.

Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

Author: Claire Elise Katz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253007623
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's "Crisis of Humanism," which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.

The Other Renaissance

Author: Rocco Rubini
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618613X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Book Description
This title offers a cultural translation of modern Italian intellectual and philosophical history, a development book-ended by Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci. It shows Italian philosophy to have emerged during the age of the Risorgimento in reaction to 18th century French revolutionary and rationalist standards in politics and philosophy and in critical assimilation of the German reaction to the same, mainly Hegelian idealism and, eventually, Heideggerian existentialism. This is the story of modern Italian philosophy told through the lens of Renaissance scholarship.

Applied Humanism

Author: Jennifer Hancock
Publisher: Business Expert Press
ISBN: 1949991431
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is. This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. Humanism helps us prioritize human value as important. It supports positive interpersonal relationships and collaborative and respectful decision-making. Since all businesses are in the business of solving problems, good problem solving is essential to good business. Humanism has already transformed many other disciplines including psychology, medicine, nursing, and more. Additionally, humanism is foundational to the practice of human resources, without which businesses cannot operate. It is important for business managers to understand the philosophy fully so they can understand how to not only manage people more effectively, but how to operate their businesses in a way that helps the communities in which they operate. This book will provide the primer they need to create more effective and ethical businesses.

Between Levinas and Heidegger

Author: John E. Drabinski
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438452594
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simple—and accurate—oppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.

The Little Book of Humanism

Author: Alice Roberts
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349425450
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER We all want to lead a happy life. Traditionally, when in need of guidance, comfort or inspiration, many people turn to religion. But there has been another way to learn how to live well - the humanist way - and in today's more secular world, it is more relevant than ever. In THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISM, Alice Roberts and Andrew Copson share over two thousand years of humanist wisdom through an uplifting collection of stories, quotes and meditations on how to live an ethical and fulfilling life, grounded in reason and humanity. With universal insights and beautiful original illustrations, THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISM is a perfect introduction to and a timeless anthology of humanist thought from some of history and today's greatest thinkers.

Outside the Subject

Author: Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804721998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This volume consists of fourteen pieces selected by Levinas himself in 1987 from a large body of uncollected essays.

Humanism in Business

Author: Heiko Spitzeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Book Description
There are many books about business and society, yet very few of them question the primacy of GDP growth, profit maximization and individual utility maximization. This groundbreaking book questions these assumptions and investigates the possibility of creating a human-centered, value-oriented society based on humanistic principles.

Reason and Reverence

Author: William R. Murry
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558965188
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description

The Best of Humanism

Author: North American Committee for Humanism
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879753818
Category : Humanism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Published in cooperation with the North American Committee for Humanism."