Embodied Humanism: Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment

Jeff Noonan

doi:10.5771/9781793636959

Summary

There are many answers to the question of why life is worth living, but they all presuppose that good lives are sensuously enjoyable. Time seems to stand still in the moment when we enjoy food and drink, peaceful, laughing relationships with friends, or lay quietly, allowing the beauty of nature and human creations to unfold before us. Embodied Humanism: Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment explores ways that enjoyment is also political. The history of political struggle is a history of fighting back against silencing, hunger, and violent domination, but also fighting for social peace, need-satisfaction, voice, and democratic power. Tracing the values of embodied humanism across history and across cultures and identities, the book finds a more comprehensive universal humanist ethic around which old and emerging struggles can be unified. Ultimately, Jeff Noonan argues, these struggles can be directed towards creating institutional structure and individual dispositions that will secure the social conditions in which our capacities for receptive openness and delight are satisfied for each and all.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3694-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3695-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. 1. From Critical Humanism, through Materialist Ethics, to Embodied Humanism No access
  2. Notes No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Humanity of the Oppressed No access
2. 1. Structure of the Argument No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1.1: The Ambiguities of “Humanism” No access
2. 1.2: Principles of Posthumanist Philosophy No access
3. 1.3: The Contradictions of Posthumanism from a Materialist Ethical Point of View No access
4. Notes No access
1. 2.1: Finitude, Dependence, and Social Relationships No access
2. 2.2: Work, Repose, and Sensuous Enjoyment No access
3. 2.3: Self-Government and Sensuality No access
4. Notes No access
1. 3.1: Human Dignity, Divine Intelligence No access
2. 3.2: Ideological Humanism and Colonialism No access
3. 3.3: The World Seen through the Word: Language, Labor, and Life-Knowledge No access
4. 3.4: Work, Social Peace, and the All-Round Enjoyment of Life No access
5. 3.5: Embodied Humanism: First Theoretical Synthesis No access
6. Notes No access
1. 4.1: Naturalism, Humanism, and the Enjoyment of Life No access
2. 4.2: The Limits of Enlightened Humanism: The Oppressed Speak for Themselves No access
3. 4.3: Second Theoretical Synthesis: The Historical Logic of Concrete Universality No access
4. Notes No access
1. 5.1: Human Creativity and Cultural Difference No access
2. 5.2: Historical Materialism and the Social Conditions of Human Life-Enjoyment No access
3. 5.3: Land, Labor, and the Production of Concretely Universal Meaning No access
4. Notes No access
1. 6.1: Indifference, Responsibility, and All-Round Life-Enjoyment No access
2. 6.2: Four Dimensions of a Life-Coherent Society No access
3. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 213 - 224
Index No access Pages 225 - 232
About the Author No access Pages 233 - 234