I'm really interested in the idea about, and we just touched on it then, actually, that humanism has to contain both universality and diversity. I think twice, actually, you touch on it briefly towards the beginning and then towards the end in more detail,. That actually you need both, especially in relation to disability rights, which you also write about. And you're right near the end of the book about post-humanists, and they look forward to a time when humans kind of died outReally, and then transhumanists who want us to accelerate towards technology are fascinated by those groups of people. What do you read before bed? Do you tend to read books about human
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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