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     • He saw humanism as a means for building a better world, a world beyond senseless divisions and beyond war. It was humanism that nourished Vonnegut's optimism, though his knowledge of history and his own personal experiences made that optimism cautious.
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   Why is Vonnegut called a humanist?

   • Wayne Laufert: It makes sense to start where Vonnegut did. He called himself a humanist, which means in part that he tried to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishments after he’s dead. That’s where the title of the book comes from, Behaving Decently.

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   Is 'behaving decently' a good book for Vonnegut fans?

   • Given all that’s here, Wayne Laufert’s Behaving Decently is a necessary companion for those Vonnegut fans seeking to understand the man’s humanism and those humanists seeking to understand the man’s works.

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   Why did Kurt Vonnegut study religion?

   • As a student of anthropology, Kurt Vonnegut was interested in the cultural impact of religion more than its theological soundness. He wondered what religion does for people. Then he adds that Vonnegut’s “most enduring contribution to religious studies is his fourth novel, Cat’s Cradle, from 1963.”

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   How did Vonnegut express himself?

   • Laufert’s book is full of other trenchant insights as he draws from a far-reaching range of the ways Vonnegut expressed himself—not just in his novels but short stories, journalistic reports, speeches and sermons, letters, illustrations, interviews, rejected and unpublished works, and casual remarks.

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   Should you feel bad about Kurt Vonnegut?

   • Hence nobody needs to feel bad if they could use some help navigating the life and work of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. But of special note is the fact that Kurt Vonnegut was named honorary president of the American Humanist Association in 1992.

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   Is Vonnegut Baltimore still going strong?

   • Wayne Laufert: Yes, Vonnegut Baltimore. We’re still going strong. We’re in our 13th season reading books by and about and somehow related to Kurt Vonnegut. We go through all 14 of his novels and the four main works of non-fiction in order of publication. It takes us about three years to do that, to cycle through. We mix in books about Vonnegut.

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   Apr 4, 2023 · In his new book, Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism, author Wayne Laufert explores Vonnegut’s lifelong interest in humanist thought. Vonnegut scholar Marc Leeds, author of The Vonnegut Encyclopedia, writes that Laufert, “lifts the veils of various psychological and literary readings of Vonnegut to lay bare the essential values ...

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   Jun 14, 2022 · Fortunately, help has arrived in the form of Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism by Wayne Laufert, a book just published by Humanist Press. It analyzes the man’s literary output with special emphasis on his intellectual ideas.

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   Apr 13, 2007 · As honorary president of the American Humanist Association, Vonnegut was a great proponent of humanism as a tool for building a better world. Humanists are skeptical of religious claims ...

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   Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism. by Wayne Laufert. Vonnegut and humanism go hand in hand. But defining an -ism is one thing. In BEHAVING DECENTLY, Wayne Laufert lays the groundwork of a humanist philosophy as defined through the themes and characters in Vonnegut’s work—from his first novel, Player Piano (1952), to several ...

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   Feb 13, 2014 · IN HIS EIGHTY-FIVE spins around the sun, Kurt Vonnegut managed to make people smile about the darkest aspects of the human condition. One of his most famous novels, the 1963 campus classic, Cat’s Cradle , deals with the apocalypse, a deadly new weapon, and the invention of a new religion.

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   Jun 22, 2022 · Why did iconic author Kurt Vonnegut describe himself as a “Christ-worshiping agnostic”? Find out in this presentation about the new Humanist Press book Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism.

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   Jun 21, 2022 · In Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism, Wayne Laufert examines how Vonnegut revealed his moral philosophy through the themes and characters in his work and through his public...