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  • noun Opposition to humanism

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anti- +‎ humanism

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  • Such developments, he thinks, have fostered an ethos of “antihumanism” in which the collective is exalted over the individual.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • In its antihumanism and in its thick impasto, with slices and diagonal blades of dark color making sharp edges à la Clyfford Still, this picture looks forward as well as backward.

    Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • Such developments, he thinks, have fostered an ethos of “antihumanism” in which the collective is exalted over the individual.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • I would rather have my intelligence insulted than be subjected to two hours of obscenity, stupidity, violence, and antihumanism AND have my intelligence insulted, AND pay $10 a ticket for the privilege. juanito - John Davey says:

    100 Mysteries: Mystery Liner – The Bleat. 2009

  • I have vertigo… I understand what was wanting in our antihumanism.

    Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008

  • I have vertigo… I understand what was wanting in our antihumanism.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • But our dear Soviet literary schlock is not that innocent: it represents either the militant propaganda of antihumanism, or a senseless waste of material resources, energy, and labor.

    A Satisfied Author Faith, Carl 1979

  • This painstakingly detailed docudrama, which won the grand prize at the Berlin film festival, commands some attention and respect; I just can't go along with its antihumanistic attack on antihumanism.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Heidegger's leftist acolytes, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, felt able to sideline his racist and genocidal beliefs while embracing his antihumanism.

    The Guardian World News John Keenan 2010

  • • In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

    UUpdates - All updates 2008

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