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“humanism was a false universalism, however. Its concept of ‘the person’ was an abstraction modelled on the singular coherence of the intellect, rather than on the diversity of bodies, feelings, values and longings. The prestige of reason was itself founded on an irrational repudiation of the different and the strange, of cultures, practices and appearances that diverged from the narrow norms of a Western male monoculture whose internal uniformity was misconceived as a harmonious and inclusive objectivity.”
― Finn Bowring, Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature: From Romanticism to Rationality