.... The chapter first considers how dictatorship became marginal, a minor presence throughout the development of medieval legal and political philosophy, and more specifically how the Roman model of dictatorship was displaced by the medieval theory of emergency. It then explains how the civic humanism...

... of intersubjectivity more generally, we rob ourselves of the possibility to think the human psyche in all its complexities. Finally, the conclusion notes that certain films discussed in the book (not least Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small and Korine’s Trash Humpers) seem...

...This chapter addresses the histories of literary criticism, and tries to update and then backdate the tensions between the critic-as-sage and the critic-as-sceptic, in order to locate the kind of humanism concerned. It homogenises all forms of historicism and says that it is a form of scepticism...

... and Hal's dehumanising influence upon it. The example of Kastan demonstrates the point that there is a ‘residual’ literary humanism at work in forms of historicism avowedly sceptical of the existence of human nature. I Henry IV is concerned with what ‘weighs’ people down and gives them...

..., the conditions under which human beings flourish or perish. Love, ethics, emotion, vulnerability and humility are amongst the topics discussed as part of the book's argument that Shakespeare is continually at pains to reclaim the human from its complete liquefaction. The book offers new ways of understanding...

... in his “Apology for Raymond Sebond.” It then appears in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra as a form of theatrical character. Through the adaptive strategies of Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Renaissance humanism, a modern definition of subjectivity and consciousness emerges. Shakespeare’s...

... dialogues that took place against the background of colonial Mexico. In so doing, the textbooks linked Renaissance humanism to the transformation of urban, social, and religious spaces that followed the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire. Cervantes Francisco de Salazar conquistadores conversion Mexico...

... Francis God Schiller Gertrud compassion King Lear Edgar Tom o’Bedlam Loincloth Imitatio Christi Man of Sorrows Albrecht Dürer Thomas a Kempis Christian Humanism Unity of character In the sub-plot of King Lear, the fugitive Edgar decides to disguise himself as a poor beggar...

... to and the terms in which such redefinitions occurred. It also considers a redefined humanism and a signifying practice that is based on combinations instead of boundaries. bodily practice community culture Durkheim Emile Fischer Lichte Erika performativity body fashion festival individuals mind body...

... societies. The chapter presents an overview of the ways in which other psychological theories have been used for political ends: behaviourism, Freud's politics of the unconscious self and society, humanism's self-centred politics and postmodernism. Church of Satan anxiety capitalism consumerism...

... of this entwining of subjectivity and hermeneutics. This chapter engages with Gregory’s and Simpson’s (different) historiographies that each censure the Reformers’ hermeneutics, especially for its impacts on modernity, before elaborating on how the Reformers’ recovery of Augustine’s emphases on humanity’s fallen...

... School of Rock (2003), Fast Food Nation (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2008) and Bernie (2011). Bordwell David humanism memory moral recency narrative primacy effect recency effect spectatorship ethics Hamlet conversation Newman Michael...

...This chapter examines the construction of David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851), a prolific Blackwoodian author and surgeon, as a medical poet, by himself and others, both within Blackwood’s and beyond, as a key component of a redemptive counter-discourse of medical humanism...

...Michel Serres seeks to elaborate an account of the human that accommodates both determinate qualities (like Badiou and Meillassoux) and de-differentiation (like Malabou). His aim is to marry singularity and determinacy with genericity and plurality, yielding neither an undifferentiated and abstract...

...Chapter 6 considers the figure of the human that emerges in Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and his ‘Facing Gaia’ lectures. Latour neither repeats nor discards previous notions of humanity but translates them in a gesture that can be traced all the way back to his...

... represents a great era of French legal humanism in the 16th century. He was a graduate of Poitiers, a practitioner, a respected lawyer at the Royal Court, a politician and a diligent scholar. Of his scholarly work, the present paper investigates the structure, significance, possible aims and issues...

...This chapter goes into greater detail regarding the history of humanist thought and the way a narrative-based humanism might be exhumed from humanism’s philosophical lineage. It looks at the differences between Renaissance, canonical, and contemporary secular humanisms and the set of values...

... education Dutch law professors civil law humanism Perhaps the most significant cultural figure in Edinburgh life in the first half of the eighteenth century was Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Baron of the new Exchequer Court established after the Union. ¹ It is notable that a lawyer should have...

... he calls expressive individualism. The chapter unpacks key concepts developed in Taylor’s book, such as the buffered self, exclusive humanism, authenticity, and the immanent frame. Finally, the chapter shows how upheavals such as the social changes of the 1960s have influenced modern views about...

... humanism. The line of argumentation follows a bottom-up methodology based on enactivist assumptions. By the end the chapter will render the adopted approach theoretically explicit and offer closing remarks about the use of enactivist phenomenology for cultural analysis, by comparing it with neighbouring...