Humanism: More than a Descriptive Methodology

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Notes

1. Theodor W. Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cummings (London: Collins, 1973), 51–53, 105–7; George Steiner, Language and Silence (London: Penguin, 1969), 70–78.

2. See inter alia, Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Harper Row, 1972); Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Crossroads, 1989); Jean-François Lyotard, The Post Modern Condition, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984); Christopher Norris, What's Wrong with Post Modernism (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrire and Edward Robinson (New York, Harper Row, 1962).

3. Cf. Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press Books, 1998), chap. 4.

4. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There, chaps. 2, 3.

5. Through such organizations as the Rationalist Press Association, the Ethical Union, and the National Secular Society founded by Charles Bradlaugh—to mention only a few. See H. J. Blackham, Humanism (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1976), 129ff.; Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (London: Bantam, 2006); Charles Taylor, The Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2007).