Humanism Revisited : An Anthropological Perspective

The West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from ‘heteronomy': it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (and often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help promote inclusion and pluralism. Humanism Revisited Contents Foreword Preface Note on Text Introduction Part I. The State of Things Chapter 1. Humanism Today Chapter 2. Worldwide Interdependence in the Twenty-First Century Part II. A Plea for NEED Humanism Chapter 3. NEED Humanism Chapter 4. NE Chapter 5. E Chapter 6. D Chapter 7. What Next? Chapter 8. Reset or the Extinction of Homo Sapiens? Conclusion Afterword References Index of Subjects Index of Names