inhumanism
- noun
- /ɪnˈhjuːmənɪzəm/
- Specialized
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inhumanismo
- From his perch on the Hawk Tower on the Carmel coast beginning in the 1920s, Jeffers developed a pantheistic philosophy, expressed through his poetry, which he called "Inhumanism," as a counterpoint to Western anthropocentrism.
- contemporary inhumanism
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The poet's philosophy of inhumanism challenges traditional human-centered values by embracing perspectives from nature and the cosmos.
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The most obvious and recurrent locus for modernism's "inhumanism" is no doubt the machine.
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Such is the living core of all satirical inhumanism: a burning love for the particular that will not abide.
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The signal distinction between Swiftian satire and today's speculative inhumanism is thus clarified.
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Contemporary inhumanism remains indifferent to this vastly complicated genealogy and tone-deaf to the very politics of style, at the risk of its own critical perspicacity.
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That is to say, contemporary inhumanism's primordial animus is epistemological, not ontological, although ontology is the banner under which it is most often found marching.
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I will suggest that his conceptions of "Promethean shame," but especially "the Promethean gap," provide a unique angle through which to think of modernist inhumanism as the site of a discrepancy or conflict between our capacity to produce and our capacity to perceive.
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This is the precariousness that the atomic films at once presume for the enemy population and disavow for the American soldiers who are commanded to face the bomb of their country's making and, uniformly, repeatedly, pass the test. # Nuclear Inhumanism #
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Satire keeps alive, as militant irony, the social tensions and contradictions that contemporary inhumanism tends to occlude behind a rhetoric of ontological satiety.
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If criticism has finally caught up with the radical alterity of this artwork, it may be because its singular literary form and self-conscious incorporation of a mass-medial apparatus make it a perfect case study for the intersection of modernism, inhumanism, and media theory.
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Antonyms
How Human-centered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inhumanism comes from in- 'not', human, and -ism 'belief'. So, like the opposite of humanism, it names a belief that does not put humans at the center of value and helps explain the idea of a philosophy beyond human-centered views.