antihumanism

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Etymology

anti- +‎ humanism

Noun

antihumanism (usually uncountable, plural antihumanisms)

  1. (philosophy, ethics) Opposition to humanism.
    • 1994 November 11, David Kestenbaum, “Highway to Hell”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Thus the field moved beyond its early antihumanism, upgrading drivers from unthinking particles to individuals with agendas (and car phones, and tempers, and fast food banquets spread out on the dashboard).
    • 2007 April 15, Ken Kalfus, “They Had a Hammer”, in New York Times‎:
      In his frigid antihumanism, Sorokin parts company with Russian satirists like Gogol, Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha and, more recently, Viktor Pelevin.

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See also
  • inhumanism

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