Andreas Höfele, Stephan Laqué, "Humankinds: The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 3110258307 | 280 pages | PDF | 3,7 MB
The early modern period gave rise to ´;humanism´; it also witnessed an unprecedented diversification of the concept that was at its very core, the human. The question of what defines the human became increasingly contested as new developments - the emergence of the natural sciences, the Reformation, colonial expansion - were undermining old certainties.
The resulting multiplication of definitions of the human bears out the assumption that anthropology is a discipline of crisis, seeking to establish sets of common values and norms in situations when established authority finds itself under pressure.
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