Humanism: The Wreck of Western Culture
Fontana Press, $16.95pb
Philosophy
Humanism: The Wreck of Western Culture by John Carroll
by Bronte Adams •
When Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth appeared in Britain, British feminists asked, ‘where has Naomi Wolf been for the last 20 years?’ The same question might well be asked of John Carroll. His assessment of humanism seems imperiously oblivious to structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of the humanist edifice.
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