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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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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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...
