TY - BOOK AU - Davies, Tony, TI - Humanism T2 - The new critical idiom SN - 9780415420648 (hardback (cased) : alk. paper) U1 - 144 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Humanism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index; Introduction : What is humanism? -- 1. The invention of humanity : Romantic humanism ; Renaissance man: a nineteenth-century creation ; The birth of modernity ; The religion of humanity -- 2. Humanism and antihumanism : Nietzsche: humanism as metaphor and illusion ; Liberal humanism ; Modernism and anithumanism ; The twilight of liberal humanism ; Socialist humanism and theoretical antihumanism ; The death of man -- 3. Humanists before humanism : Humanist printing ; Eloquence and identity ; Gender trouble ; Wind from the east ; Islamic humanism ; Humanist reading ; Pico della Mirandola and `Renaissance humanism` -- 4. Humanism and enlightenment : Nature and science ; Humanism and religion ; Enlightenment -- 5. The end of humanism : Waiting for the post-man -- Towards a conclusion UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028808.html ER -