Critical humanism and the politics of difference

Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices. He explains tha...

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Published inCritical humanism and the politics of difference
Main Author Noonan, Jeff
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Montreal, Que McGill-Queen's University Press 2003
MQUP
Edition1
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Aspect politique
Difference (Philosophy)
Différence (Philosophie)
Humanism
Humanisme
Philosophy
Political aspects
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Summary:Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices. He explains that because the postmodern conception of human being does not capture what is universal in all humans it is incapable of critically responding to the forcible subordination of different cultures to European "humanity." When oppressed groups explain why they struggle against oppression, they invoke just that idea of human being as subjectivity that postmodern philosophy claims is the basis of oppression. Noonan argues that the voices of cultural differences, when they struggle against the forces of hatred and exclusion, do not ground themselves just in the particular value of their culture but in the universal value of human freedom and self-determination.
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ISBN:077357123X
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0773525785
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