anti-humanist

noun

an·​ti-hu·​man·​ist

ˌan-tē-ˈhyü-mə-nist,

-ˈyü-,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or antihumanist

: someone who opposes or rejects the beliefs, principles, or assumptions of humanism

Anti-humanists are not necessarily against human beings; they merely assert that a humanistic conception of life is untenable and may be morally dangerous.

—William Schweiker

anti-humanist adjective

or antihumanist

… the desire to rescue the concept of agency from the anti-humanist assaults of poststructuralism …

—Deborah Klein

anti-humanistic

ˌan-tē-ˌhyü-mə-ˈni-stik

-ˌyü-

ˌan-tī- 

adjective

or antihumanistic

The result is a situation in which even vibrant and worldly artists like Rubens are made over in the sniggering, neurotic image of contemporary anti-humanistic pedantry.

—Roger Kimball

anti-humanism

ˌan-tē-ˈhyü-mə-ˌni-zəm

-ˈyü-

ˌan-tī- 

noun

or antihumanism

In his frigid antihumanism, Sorokin parts company with Russian satirists like Gogol, Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha and, more recently, Viktor Pelevin.

—Ken Kalfus

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above