Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Budé, and the Poverty of Philology

Abstract

The borders of the human are never marked solely by the threat of the non-human beyond them. Much of what we accept as ‘human’ is defined in distinction to that which is not fully ‘human’, that which does not correspond to a notion of a ‘humane’ humanity. To be human means not only to be not a beast, but also to subscribe to a specific code of humanity. In various periods and in various locations this notion of humanity has been used both to support and to subvert dominant ideologies built along lines of difference in gender, ethnicity and class. More subtly, humanity has been linked to ineffable concepts such as ‘taste’ and ‘sensibility’. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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