The Difference Within Us: Our Humanity and Inhumanity
What is disclosed when we seek to understand the fine line of difference within us all?
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about “Balkanization” (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Nationalism is not an ancient trait of the European Southeast. Rather, it is a classic Western European product.
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For “A Civilian Truce”: Why We Need the Humble Humanism of Albert Camus
A human-centered ethic means nothing if not solidarity with every child.
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Reflections on Rome: Keeping Particularities In
Series: Rome 2016
The intellectual and social histories of humanisms show how they can slip all too easily and all too comfortably into a drive against differences and, thus, against pluralism.
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Many Humanisms, Many Modernities: Contesting Talal Asad’s Anti-Humanist Critique of Humanitarianism
Due to his sole preoccupation with a secularized Christian and Western story of human-humanism-humanitarianism, Asad’s genealogy misses ongoing, creative, and complex contemporary engagements with the ethics and practices, promises and ambivalences of all humanistic projects—engagements that can and do inform the ways in which humanitarianism is being envisioned, enacted, and critiqued.
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