Embodied Humanism

Jeff Noonan is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Humanity, Struggle, and the Sensuous Enjoyment of LifeChapter 1: Why Posthumanism?Chapter 2: Life Under the Sun: Ancient Poetic and Philosophical Insights into the Goods of Earthly LifeChapter 3: The Renaissance and Humanity’s Place in the Order of ThingsChapter 4: The Enlightenment and the Deployment of Reason as a Critical WeaponChapter 5: The Social Conditions for the Universal Enjoyment of Life Chapter 6: Responsibility and the Pleasures of Social IndividualsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

In this masterful book, Jeff Noonan shows how an embodied humanism, founded on universal life-values emanating from human needs enables a solidarity for both the oppressed and the planet, capable of promoting the life range of humanity as a whole. Building on a vast range of scholarship, he argues meticulously and persuasively that the sensuous enjoyment of life avoids the pitfalls of egoistic hedonism because of the dynamic relationship between the self-determining, social individual and reality. Noonan demonstrates how a renewed humanism that recognizes the body as the source of all experience can provide answers to some of the central issues of our time. For the courage and intellectual mastery realized in its pages, this book deserves to be read and studied carefully by all those interested in a philosophical outlook that provides hope for our world.