Humanly possible seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope

"'This is a book about humanists, but even humanists cannot agree on what a humanist is,' declares Sarah Bakewell. Indeed, for centuries now, thinkers, writers, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, and countless others have been searching for and refining a philosophy of the human spirit. Huma...

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Main Author: Bakewell, Sarah, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Only connect! An introduction
  • The land of the living
  • Raising ships
  • Provocateurs and pagans
  • Marvelous network
  • Human stuff
  • Perpetual miracles
  • Sphere for all human beings
  • Unfolding humanity
  • Some dream-country
  • Doctor hopeful
  • The human face
  • The place to be happy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Declaration of modern humanism (Humanists International, 2022).