Tom Quinn's Reviews > Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

I adore this series, perfect for college firstyears and curious laypeoples, but this entry is not its strongest. Big style but light substance comes across as cheek, and before long you've quit learning and you're just cracking wise. Case in point,

Without God, it is suggested, humanity amounts to little more than a dirty smudge on a ball of rock lost in an incomprehensibly vast universe that will eventually bare [sic] no trace of us having ever existed, and which will itself collapse into nothingness. So why bother getting out of bed in the morning? (119)

Har har, but the chapter heading here is "The Meaning of Life" and I'd like us to focus up, please.

2.5 stars. Consider it the briefest of broadest of strokes about a topic that is admittedly really easy to summarize, then go follow up with something weightier. Humanism is where it's at, and it deserves more consideration than this sophomoric smugness.