From Humanism to Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism?
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Edited By Irina Deretić and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
The essays in this volume consider the relevant historical discourses, important contemporary philosophical reflections and artistic perspectives on this subject-matter. The goal is to obtain a multifaceted survey of the concepts, the relationship of the various concepts and their advantages as well as their disadvantages. Leading scholars of many different traditions, countries and disciplines have contributed to this collection.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2016. 379 pp.
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- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically
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- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically
Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
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Mirjana Pavlović
Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman1
During the cultural renaissance of the May Fourth movement, which set the direction for the subsequent development of modern Chinese literature,2 the well-known Chinese writer and critic Zhou Zuoren (1885–1967) launched and elaborated his idea of “literature of humanity (ren de wenxue).”3 By the literature of humanity, Zhou Zuoren meant those literary works that affirm a humane way of living and reject all those things that “hinder the growth of human nature and destroy the peace and harmony of mankind”. (Denton 1996, 157)4 The author believed that man, as an evolved animal and thus not different from other living beings, is endowed with beautiful and good vital faculties. Therefore, all unnatural customs and institutions, which are contrary to human nature, should ← 257 | 258 → be condemned and amended. The literature advocated by Zhou Zuoren is thus a humanist one. On the other hand, the origin of his humanism is an individual who must be completely liberated and self-realized. In this respect, “literature of humanity” is the literature of the self-aware individual who is able to recognize his individuality within a larger context—the whole of mankind, and as such contributes to the improvement of human life in general.
These elements of humanism and individualism in Zhou’s vision of “literature of humanity” are strikingly demonstrated in...
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- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically
- Cover
- Title
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- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
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- Acknowledgments
- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically