Humankinds —— The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies

----- 人类：文艺复兴和人类学

ISBN: 9783110258301 出版年：2011 页码：288 Hofele, Andreas Laque, Stephan De Gruyter

The early modern period gave rise to ′;humanism′; it also witnessed an unprecedented diversification of the concept that was at its very core, the human. The question of what defines the human became increasingly contested as new developments - the emergence of the natural sciences, the Reformation, colonial expansion - were undermining old certainties. The resulting multiplication of definitions of the human bears out the assumption that anthropology is a discipline of crisis, seeking to establish sets of common values and norms in situations when established authority finds itself under pressure.