Title

Humanist Waste

Authors

Michael A. Johnson, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

World Languages

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Part of the strategic critical impartance of the Middle Ages in the BABEL Working Group’s discussions around the “historically vexed terms, human, humanity, humanism, and the humanities”¹ is the challenge the medieval poses to those schemes of periodization implicitly at work in theories of the modern (e.g., Renaissance humanism as a rupture with the medieval) and of the postmodern (e.g., the posthuman as a rupture with the humanist subject of Enlightenment). ...

Comments

This book chatper was originally published in Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism. The book from the publisher can be found here.

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Recommended Citation

Johnson, Michael A. (2016). Humanist Waste. In Seaman, M., & Joy, Eileen A. (Eds.), Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism, 151-174. The Ohio State University Press.