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 hum...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "'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. Humanism can be found in writings of Plato and Protagoras and in the thought of Confucius. It is ever-present in the work of Michel de Montaigne, and guided the thinking and activism of Harriet Taylor Mill. When Zora Neale Hurston writes, 'Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me.' That is humanism par excellence. In Humanly Possible, Bakewell puts forward that all the different meanings of 'humanism' are worth looking at together because they are all concerned with humanitas, or, as she puts it, 'our culture and learning, our words and art, our good manners and sociable desire to say hello to the universe.' What unites humanists, religious or not, scholarly or not, philosophical or not, is that they all put the human world of culture and morality at the center of their concerns. What could be more human than that? Embracing and indeed celebrating humanism's swirling, kaleidoscopic, rich ambiguity, Bakewell sets out not just to trace this vital philosophical lineage through the lives of its major protagonists but in fact to make her own dazzling contribution to its expansive literature. The result is an intoxicating, joyful celebration of the human spirit from one of our most beloved and charming writers"-- |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Only Connect! An Introduction i 1. The Land of the Living 25 2. Raising Ships ss 3. Provocateurs and Pagans 86 4. Marvelous Network 120 5. Human Stuff 136 6. Perpetual Miracles 263 7. Sphere for All Human Beings 295 8. Unfolding Humanity 220 9. Some Dream-Country 248 10. Doctor Hopeful 278
11. The Human Face зо4 12. The Place to Be Happy 342 Acknowledgments 369 Appendix: Declaration ofModern Humanism (Humanists International, 2022) 371 Notes 375 List ofIllustrations 433 Index 437
is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The humanistic worldview—as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous—has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intel lectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism. In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, her self a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure. Voyaging from the literary enthusiasts of the four teenth century to the secular campaigners of our own time, from Erasmus to Esperanto, from anatomists to agnostics, from Christine de Pizan to Bertrand Russell, and from Voltaire to Zora Neale Hurston, Bakewell brings together extraordinary humanists across history. She explores their immense variety: some sought to promote scientific and rationalist ideas, others put more emphasis on moral living, and still others were concerned with the cultural and literary studies known as “the humanities.” Humanly Possible asks not only what brings all these aspects of humanism together but why it has such endur ing power, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, and tyrants. A singular examination of this vital tradition as well as a dazzling contribution to its literature, this is an intoxicating, joyful celebration of the human spirit from one of our most beloved writers. And at a moment when we are all too conscious of the world’s divisions, Humanly
Possible—brimming with ideas, experiments in living, and respect for the deepest ethi cal values—serves as a recentering, a call to care for one another, and a reminder that we are all, together, only human.
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CONTENTS Only Connect! An Introduction i 1. The Land of the Living 25 2. Raising Ships ss 3. Provocateurs and Pagans 86 4. Marvelous Network 120 5. Human Stuff 136 6. Perpetual Miracles 263 7. Sphere for All Human Beings 295 8. Unfolding Humanity 220 9. Some Dream-Country 248 10. Doctor Hopeful 278
11. The Human Face зо4 12. The Place to Be Happy 342 Acknowledgments 369 Appendix: Declaration ofModern Humanism (Humanists International, 2022) 371 Notes 375 List ofIllustrations 433 Index 437
is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The humanistic worldview—as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous—has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intel lectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism. In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, her self a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure. Voyaging from the literary enthusiasts of the four teenth century to the secular campaigners of our own time, from Erasmus to Esperanto, from anatomists to agnostics, from Christine de Pizan to Bertrand Russell, and from Voltaire to Zora Neale Hurston, Bakewell brings together extraordinary humanists across history. She explores their immense variety: some sought to promote scientific and rationalist ideas, others put more emphasis on moral living, and still others were concerned with the cultural and literary studies known as “the humanities.” Humanly Possible asks not only what brings all these aspects of humanism together but why it has such endur ing power, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, and tyrants. A singular examination of this vital tradition as well as a dazzling contribution to its literature, this is an intoxicating, joyful celebration of the human spirit from one of our most beloved writers. And at a moment when we are all too conscious of the world’s divisions, Humanly
Possible—brimming with ideas, experiments in living, and respect for the deepest ethi cal values—serves as a recentering, a call to care for one another, and a reminder that we are all, together, only human. |
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