Beyond Humanism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 1-30

3. Which Avenues?

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 31-67

4. The History of the Self

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 68-77

5. Free Will?

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 78-99

6. Embodied Cognition

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 100-124

7. Language

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 125-145

8. Nietzsche: The Flourishing of Life

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 146-161

9. Levinas: Philosophy of the Other

   • Bart Nooteboom

   Pages 162-184

10. Otherhumanism

    • Bart Nooteboom

    Pages 185-208

11. How Viable Is Otherhumanism?

    • Bart Nooteboom

    Pages 209-230

12. Back Matter

    Pages 231-250

    PDF

This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing. No longer Enlightenment intuitions of an autonomous, disconnected, and rational self but a philosophy oriented towards the relationship between self and other. With this, it seeks to provide an escape from present egotism and narcissism in society. It discusses altruism as well as its limitations.

• Age of Enlightenment
• bibliography
• cognition
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• enlightenment
• free will
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• history
• history of literature
• humanism
• Orient
• philosophy
• present
• society

• Tilburg University, Netherlands

  Bart Nooteboom

BART NOOTEBOOM is Part-time Professor of Innovation Policy at Tilburg University, Netherlands. The author of numerous books and 350 articles he is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Kapp, Gunnar Myrdal and Schumpeter prizes. He has been scientific director of two research institutes, member of a government committee on technology policy, and a member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy.

Policies and ethics