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We live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the End of Humanity, a ‘post-humanity’. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests such claims may be premature: instead a new understanding of humanity is required. It may be true that the narrow view of western humanity has had its day, but with this manifesto Ken Plummer critically reflects upon and re-imagines humanism for the 21st Century. What is now needed, he argues, is a fresh, wide-ranging imaginary of open plural humanity that takes both a critical stance towards older, often divisive, ideas of what it means to be human while also connecting to newer stances around the rich diversity of world life in the pluriverse. Critical Humanism shows that we simply cannot afford to be anti-human or post-human. To do so will mean losing the battle for the survival of who we are as fleshy but symbolic creative creatures. In an age of post- and trans-humanist turns, this is a personal and passionate call for thinkers, researchers and activists to not turn their backs on humanism. The book encourages us to build our humanist vision: we have actually achieved much and can achieve much more. Restoring our belief in humanity has never been more important.

Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. They regulate and empower us, bringing both joy and discontent. And they are always embedded in ubiquitous power: stories shape power, and power shapes story.In this provocative and original study, Ken Plummer takes us on a journey to explore some of the key dimensions of this narrative power. His main focus is on what he calls 'narratives of suffering' and how these change through transformative narrative actions across an array of media forms. The modern world is in crisis, and long-standing narratives are being challenged in five major directions: through deep inequalities, global state complexities, digital risks, the perpetual puzzle of truth and the ever-emerging contingencies of time. Asking how we can build sustainable stories for a better future, the book advocates the cultivation of a narrative hope, a narrative wisdom and a politics of narrative humanity.Narrative Power suggests novel directions for enquiry, discusses a raft of innovative ideas and concepts, and sets a striking new agenda for research and action.

Examines transformations in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts - the 'intimate troubles' - to which these changes give rise. This book focuses on the overlap of public and private and asks the question, what impact does the increasingly public character of personal life have on our sense of ourselves and on how we view our intimate choices? schovat popis

This textbook provides a survey of sociology. As the scientific study of society, sociology is a social science which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity. It focuses on the influence of our relationships around us and how they affect our behaviors and attitudes. The author approaches this subject with a desire to help students find and use sociology in everyday life.