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The critic Frederic Badre calls Particules "the first 21st-century novel" and Houellebecq "the first novelist who is not a humanist."
Apted might be too much of a humanist for a Bond picture.
The Middle Ages in Italy were far from being the murky era that many humanist scholars liked to contrast with the brilliance of the Renaissance.
That Du Bois--who exists in the field of black studies these days as rather the black equivalent of Einstein (theorist), Dr. Johnson (wordsmith), Emerson (humanist), and Kant (moral philosopher), separately and together, as it were--is evoked by the editors in their introduction provides this volume with a pedigree that I suppose they thought it needed, making Gates and Appiah our intellectual knights who have given us the Holy Grail.
What law or principle--secular, humanist, or religious--says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?