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Humanism and the good life : proceedings of the Fifteenth Congress of the World Federation of Humanists
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- Creator
- Peter Horwath, general editor ; William L. Hendrickson, special editor ; L. Teresa Valdivieso & Eric P. Thor, editors
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- English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Publication
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- New York : P. Lang, [1998]
- ©1998
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- xiv, 608 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820439082, 0820439088
- OCLC
- ocm37608154
- The proceedings of the congress was held on the campus of Arizona State University on March 6-13, 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English, French, German, Portugese, and Spanish.
- Foreword / William L. Hendrickson -- Introduction / Peter Horwath -- What is Humanism? / Archie J. Bahm -- Socialist Humanism or Humanist Socialism? / Laszlo Tarnoi -- History and Humanity: The Religious Alternative / Brayton Polka -- Humanistic Geography: Issues and Ethics / Ines M. Miyares -- Yi-Fu Tuan. The Good Life (Review) / John Timothy Wixted -- Humanism and Crime / Laszlo Pal -- Demography, Geopolitics and the Decline of the West / Lewis A. Tambs -- The Impact of Food, Fiber, and Nutrition: Global Integration, Rural Development, Trade and Peace / Eric P. Thor -- The Impact of Food, Fiber, and Nutrition: Global Integration, Rural Development, Trade and Peace. Challenges in Africa and in the Developing World / Richard Adu-Asamoah -- People and New Power - Deconstructing Collectivism: Reflections on Experiences in Hungary and Southeastern Africa / Richard S. Gordon -- Global Idea - Local Solution: Soft Economic Model Among Global Villages / Sandor A. Magyari -- Humanism and Insurance for the Poor / Barbara Eggenkamper -- Service Learning at the Salvation Army Recreation Center / Stacie Anfinson -- Freemasonry and Fraternities: About the Discreet Charm of the Brotherly Chains in the Conflict Area of Socio-Cultural Adaptation Strategies / Dieter A. Binder -- Men and Lifelong Allegiance: Ideological Continuity and Change in Student Fraternities / Michael Gehler -- National Character, Etho and Humanism / Jan S. Szmyd -- La destruction du totalitarisme de gauche / Miroljub Jokovic -- Humanism as Anti-Humanism: East European Ideological Experience / Piotr Fast -- Russia, the West, and the Baltics: August 1991-Present / Rolfs Ekmanis -- An Inn on the Road or a Room in a Mansion: Yugoslavia's Predicament / The Hits and Myths of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina / Jerry N. Blaskovich -- Literatura: Sistema comunicativo de un humanismo global / L. Teresa Valdivieso --
- Language and Literature as Determinants of Ethnicity and Nationhood, and the Relationship with Humanism / Michael S. Batts -- Humanism and the Global Village: A Third World Perspective / Reginald Fraser Amonoo -- The Canon and Canonicity: South African Perspectives / Hans-Jorg Knobloch -- Towards a Real Decentralization of the Literary Canon: The Arab Contribution / Magdi Youssef -- A Humanist Critique of Poststructuralist Anti-Humanism / Philip F. Williams -- Virtue, Ethics and Aspects of Ethical Formation in Dante's Divina Commedia / Shirley J. Paolini -- Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy as a Source in Abstract Expressionism / Barbara Cortright -- Das Gottlichwerden des Menschen und das Absolutwerden der Erotik in Kafkas Schlo[beta] / Thomas Taylor -- Sentimentality and Social Critique: Humanistic Impulses and Contemporary Drama / Caroline Molina -- Humanism and the Critique of Convention in the Context of Theatre / Rob Lawrence -- Humanist Poet in Exile / Reinhold Grimm -- Power, Guilt, and Grace: Reinhold Schneider's: Las Casas vor Karl V. / Michael Lehmann -- Pancho: The Mexican Migrant Experience and Suffering / Arturo Ramirez -- La deshumanizacion de los braceros en la novela: Los fabricantes de braceros de Herminio Corral Barrera / Lupe Cardenas -- La deshumanizacion del inmigrante: La metafora literaria de "El Rio" en tres textos Chicanos / Justo S. Alarcon -- Heroes and Villains in the "Corridos" Collected by Americo Paredes / Cida S. Chase -- The Rise of Chicano Humanism in Literary Representation / Manuel de Jesus Hernandez-G. -- The Politics of Spanish-Language Translations in the United States / David William Foster -- Identidad y alteridad en la etnoliteratura amerindia e indoeuropea / Enrique Ballon Aguirre -- Humanism and Romanticisms in Brazilian Literature: The First and the Last Best-Seller Novels / Tania Serra -- El problema de la pobreza y la aparicion de Lazarilio / Angel Sanchez --
- Identidad e interpretacion en La Regenta / Carlos Javier Garcia -- Almada Negreiros: a Busca de Uma Poetica da Ingenuidade ou (Re) - Invencao da Utopia / Celina Silva