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  • Smarr and Escoll 1973 note that, in addition, American youth have been profoundly affected by the cultural and societal influences of affluence, prolonged education and accompanying prolonged financial dependence on parents, an unpopular and demoralizing war, the threat of nuclear destruction, the pill and other contraception devices, and a prevailing anti-authoritarian political and social spirit, resulting in what the authors call neohumanism.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • The human body as a model for singularity type computing, makes me think of the sci-fi-ish neohumanism.

    Trillions on Vimeo 2010

  • Later on, the emphasis on German classical literature and neohumanism brought forward the ideals of the so-called harmonious personality, the right and duty to strive for individual perfection of mind, soul and body.

    Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century. 2009

  • “These three forces, the narcissistic character, the new morality, and neohumanism, have coalasced to form a living style being tried widely in adolescent role playing, emphasizing libertarian rights of existential individuality” p.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

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