Contemporary political and social movements opposed to global capitalism are reminiscent of the 1960s, a period of worldwide political, cultural, and social protests. This chapter studies the countercultural attitudes and ...

In her discourse about the first English settlers of North America, the author aims to determine the attributes of the typical Canadian, a man from a new geographical place and historical time predating the development of ...

António Vieira, a seventeenth-century Portuguese Jesuit, heterodox thinker persecuted by the Inquisition, and missionary working in the Brazilian province of Maranhão, stands comparison with Giorgio Agamben as a reader of ...

This chapter considers the idea of the new man through the prism of two texts by the Italian Neoplatonic philosopher Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494): Oration on the Dignity of Man and Heptaplus. The points of reference ...

Taking the concept of human nature as a starting point, the author discusses the problem of the so-called New Man. He shows that the relation: “human nature – civilization” is dialectical in character. The first part of ...

The essay revisits Thomas More’s Utopia – the foundational text of the entire genre of utopian and dystopian fiction. It explores Utopia’s ambiguous and somewhat inconsistent view of human nature. On the one hand, More ...

This chapter focuses on the process of the creation of a “new mythology” of the first French settlers of Québec in Fréchette’s epic nineteenth-century poem. Composed in the poetic style of his time, the poem successively ...

In the process of implementing their anthropological project, that is creating a new, perfect human being, the Bolsheviks sought inspiration from modern science and psychology, especially Freudian psychoanalysis, which was ...