Humanism (The New Critical Idiom) [Paperback]

Tony Davies (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415110521 | ISBN-13: 978-0415110525 | Publication Date: December 6, 1996 | Edition: 1

Seemingly an appeal to simple, shared humanity, humanism has proved over the last two hundred years one of the most contentious and divisive of concepts. It has provoked a succession of often bitter altercations and engages with some of the profoundest themes - religious, sexual, political - of modern life and thought. Starting with the nineteenth century educationalists and historians, Tony Davies's study traces the emergence of the figure of Man' in the writings of the humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the free-thinkers and philosophies of the seventeenth and eighteenth. He explores the issues at stake in the bruising encounters between humanism and a succession of intransigent antihumanisms. Humanism is an essential guide to one of the key concepts in cultural and literary thought.

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Review

'Davies knows what he is writing about and knows how to write about it.' - New Humanist --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Tony Davies is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Birmingham. He is co-editor of the books Theory in Practice (1994), and author of Milton: Longer Poems and Prose Writings (Routledge, 1992) and Rewriting English (Methuen, 1985).

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 6, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415110521
• ISBN-13: 978-0415110525
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,146,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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