Davies, Tony <br/><br/>
Humanism / 
Tony Davies. 
 - 2nd. ed. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2008. 
 - vi, 168 p. ;  20 cm. 
 - The new critical idiom .
 - New critical idiom. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415110521 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Humanism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN81 D37