Toward a New Humanism by Samuel Ramos, Robert Eli Sanchez - 9781647922276

Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Toward a New Humanismand Related Writings\nAuthor(s): Samuel Ramos, Robert Eli Sanchez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, United States\nImprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\nISBN-13: 9781647922276, 978-1647922276\nSynopsis\nWritten in 1940, and available here for the first time ever in English, Samuel Ramos Toward a New Humanism is a prescient discussion of humanism, technology, mortality, and the tensions between the national and the universal. In addition to Sanchezs thoughtful introduction, his superb translation of Ramoss text, and the informative editorial notes running throughout, this volume is further enriched by the inclusion of translations of other, earlier, essayswritten by Ramos and other influential philosophers from the period--on related topics as well as translations of assessments of Ramoss new humanism' by other leading philosophers in mid-century Mexico. More than eighty-five years after its original publication--and in this era of renewed o