Human Nature, the Humanities and Neoliberalism

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" Human Nature, the Humanities and Neoliberalism "
Auwais Rafudeen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082993
Doc. No	:	LA126622
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02301014‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Auwais Rafudeen
Title & Author	:	Human Nature, the Humanities and Neoliberalism [Article]\ Auwais Rafudeen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	23/1-2
Page No	:	188–211
Abstract	:	What is the purpose of studying the humanities? This paper suggests we need to revisit this fundamental question by reclaiming an older, pre-Enlightenment vision of the humanities – a vision premised on a different view of human nature and invested in the notions of contemplation, wisdom, virtue and universality. These are not amorphous notions but are associated with traditions through which they are practiced and realized. And when applied to the sphere of late modernity, they tend act in opposition to features characteristic of this modernity. Specifically: contemplation as against the commoditizing of ideas; wisdom as against information without terminus; virtue as against subjectivity defined in terms of rights; and universality as against identity politics. It is our view that this older vision of the humanities – and the key to its ‘relevance’ today – is that it provides a refuge against, and a challenge to, the corrosive onslaught of a dehumanizing neoliberal modernity.
Descriptor	:	contemplation
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	human nature
Descriptor	:	humanities
Descriptor	:	neoliberalism
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	universality
Descriptor	:	virtues
Descriptor	:	wisdom
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02301014‬