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By William E. Connolly
Published: 20 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7325-4
... sociocentrism humanist exceptionalism planetary Anthropocene futurity ...
Published: 20 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373254-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7325-4
... This chapter criticizes continuing tendencies to sociocentrism and humanist exceptionalism in the humanities and human sciences. To discern these tendencies in their strong form the chapter compares four diverse modernists: Rousseau, Isaiah Berlin, Hayek, and Marx. The idea of the Anthropocene...
Published: 20 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373254-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7325-4
... doing they point to the reality of human creativity and show it to be more complex and dependent upon nonhuman processes than doctrines of humanist exceptionalism suggest. Along the way “arts of the self” that reach below the register of cultural consciousness are engaged. Examples are given to show how...