Critical humanism in a post-modern world
Studies in Symbolic Interaction
ISBN: 978-0-76230-851-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-139-2
Publication date: 18 January 2002
Abstract
The ‘human being’ and ‘humanism’ have become thoroughly contested terms and widely denounced from a range of intellectual positions from behaviorism to post-modernism. After outlining some elements of the anti-humanist critique, the paper attempts to mount a defence. It concludes by suggesting some of the elements for a ‘critical humanism’, and suggests that postmodernism and humanism need not be incompatible.
Citation
Plummer, K. (2002), "Critical humanism in a post-modern world", Denzin, N.K. (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 293-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0163-2396(02)80053-9
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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