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Editor of the New Humanist magazine, Hawton was a leading humanist activist of the mid-twentieth century. But this book is not an activist work. The Humanist Revolution is more of a social and cultural history. It powerfully identifies the basics of a humanist approach to life but then illustrates how the ‘humanist turn’ is a central moment in western and global history. In a sense, there are two humanisms. There is the conscious humanism of the self-identifying humanist but there is also the bigger humanism, which is a set of implicit ideas in the western mind. This book is a…
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