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Sarah Bake Sarah Bakewell the history of humanism in a provocative new book.
She argues that humanists believe there is more than one aspect to the truth.
Desiderius E Renaissance anism is about both social and individual enlightenment; it creates the proper conditions for moral and intellectual flourishing.
Both secularism and pluralism came of age with Montaigne, for whom human m Europe riou the late Middle Ages rated in itself.
This pluralist outlook anticipates the novelistic tradition, inaugurated by writers like Miguel Cervan West in Don Quixote and the present day in Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1 Bakewell Antihumanism began in the growing Petrarch on t Tzvetan Todorov are dominated by external forces and lack agency in the face of either history or discourse.
It attempted to debunk the ideas of individual One ency and universal human nature.
Michel Foucault argued that the human sciences, rooted in Renaissance humanism, we more than one umbling.
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