Humanly possible : seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
by Bakewell, Sarah, 1963- (Author)
Summary
"'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. Huma... Full description
- Only connect! An introduction
- The land of the living
- Raising ships
- Provocateurs and pagans
- Marvelous network
- Human stuff
- Perpetual miracles
- Sphere for all human beings
- Unfolding humanity
- Some dream-country
- Doctor hopeful
- The human face
- The place to be happy
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Declaration of modern humanism (Humanists International, 2022).