A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Human-
Human beings. See Man.
Human brotherhood
Human limits
Human nature
Human rights. See Rights.
Human sacrifices
Human status
Humanity. See Mankind.
Humanity (Human feelings)
Humanitarianism
Humanoids
Human brotherhood
Barthes, Roland. "La grande famille des hommes." In Barthes, Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, 1957. 173-6.
Human limits
Browne. "De la causa primera de errores comunes, la imperfección común de la naturaleza humana." "Otra ilustración de la misma." Chs. 1 and 2 of Browne, Sobre errores vulgares o Pseudodoxia Epidemica. Ed. Daniel Waissbein. Madrid: Siruela, 1994. 65-72.*
Human nature
Barkow, Jerome H., Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, eds. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.
Burgh, James. The Dignity of Human Nature. London, 1754.
Carroll, Joseph. "Human Nature and Literary Meaning: A Theoretical Model Illustrated with a Critique of Pride and Prejudice." In The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Ed. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Evanston (IL): Northwestern UP, 2005. 76-106.*
Hobbes, Thomas. Human Nature and De Corpore. Ed. J. C. A. Gaskin. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Hume, David. (Anonymous pub.). A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. London, 1739-1740. 1748, 1758.
_____. A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed. Thomas H. Green and T. H. Grose. 2 vols. London: Longmans, 1874.
_____. A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.*
_____. A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge and P. H. Nidditch. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978.
_____. A Treatise on Human Nature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965. 1981.
_____. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: Dent.
_____. L'Entendement: Traité de la Nature Humaine, livre I et appendice. (GF 701). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.
_____. Les Passions: Traité sur la nature humaine, livre II. (With) Dissertation sur les passions. (GF 557). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.
_____. La Morale: Traité de la Nature Humaine, livre III. (GF 702). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.
_____. Tratado de la naturaleza humana. Madrid: Tecnos, 1988.
Leigh Hunt. "Thoughts and Guesses on Human Nature." In Hunt, Essays. London: Walter Scott, n. d. 277-86.*
McEwan, Ian. "Literature, Science, and Human Nature." In The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative. Ed. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Evanston (IL): Northwestern UP, 2005. 5-19.*
Miller, Geoffrey. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Pinker, Steven. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking, 2002.
_____. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. New York: Viking, 2007.*
Tooby, John, and Leda Cosmides. "On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation." Journal of Personality 58 (1990): 17–67.
Watson, Peter. "26. Del alma a la mente: La búsqueda de las leyes de la naturaleza humana." In Watson, Ideas: Historia intelectual de la Humanidad. Barcelona: Crítica, 2006. 835-72.* (Enlightenment).
See also Man (Human nature).
Human sacrifices
ABC. "Peru Child Sacrifice Discovery May be the Largest in History." ABC News 28 April 2018.*
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-28/140-children-killed-in-ancient-child-sacrifice-in-peru/9706926
2018
Álvarez de Toledo, Luisa Isabel (Spanish aristocratic whistleblower, a.k.a. "La Duquesa Roja"). La ilustre degeneración. (Elites, Corruption, human sacrifices, organized crime, murder).
Bermúdez de Castro, José María. "Sacrificios humanos y el poder de la codicia." Reflexiones de un primate 21 April 2016.*
2016
García Landa, José Angel. "The Functionality and Dysfunctionality of Human Sacrifice." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 April 2016.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2016/04/the-functionality-and-dysfunctionality.html
2016
Girard, René. Le Bouc émissaire. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1982.
_____. Le Bouc émissaire. Paris: Le Livre de Poche.
_____. The Scapegoat. Trans. Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986. Pbk 1989.*
Harris, Marvin. "Sacrificios humanos." In Harris, Nuestra especie. 3rd. ed. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011. 417-21.*
Kaplan, Sarah. "The 'darker link' between Ancient Human Sacrifice and Our Modern World." Washington Post 5 April 2016.*
2016
Margaritoff, Marco. "The True History of Moloch, the Ancient God of Child Sacrifice." All That's Interesting 22 March 2020.*
https://allthatsinteresting.com/moloch
2020
Mas Arellano, Guillermo. Asedios de lo terrible: Tratado sobre economía sacrificial. Sequitur, 2026. (Sacrifice, Elites, Biopolitics, Social engineering, Psyops).
Plutarch. De defectu oraculorum. In Morals. Trans. Holland, 1603.
_____. The Obsolescence of Oracles.
_____. De Defectu Oraculorum (The Obsolescence of Oracles). From Moralia (Loeb Classical Library, V). Online at Sir Thomas Browne.*
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_defectu_oraculorum*.htmlSpinney, Laura. "Did Human Sacrifice Help People Form Complex Societies?" The Atlantic 27 Feb. 2018.*
2018
Turchin, Peter. "Is Human Sacrifice Functional at the Society Level?" Cliodynamica 8 April 2016.*
http://peterturchin.com/blog/2016/04/08/is-human-sacrifice-functional-at-the-society-level/
2016
Wade, Lizzie. "Feeding the Gods: Hundreds of Skulls Reveal the Massive Scale of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Capital." Science 21 July 2018.*
2018
Films
How Art Made the World: To Death and Back. Prod. and dir. Ben McPherson. Presented by Nigel Spivey. Series prod. Mark Hedgecoe. BBC / KCET Hollywood, 2005. Online at DailyMotion (Educational Documentaries) (2022).*
2023
Audio
Fisk, Eric Rendelking, et al. "Frazzledrip, Adrenochrome, and the Podesta Brothers Art Collection." The Fedora Chronicles 14 Aug. 2020.* (Scandals, Jeffrey Epstein, Pornography, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Conspiranoia, Cults, Pedophilia and Child abuse, John and Tony Podesta, Human sacrifices, Secret societies, child trafficking).
https://soundcloud.com/fedorachronicles/2020-08-15-frazzledrip-adrenochrome
2022
Video
Lankamp, Juan. "La Ilustre Española: El libro que España no quiere que leas." Video. YouTube (Juan de la Familia Lankamp) 22 Aug. 2025.* (Alcásser crime; Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, Sacrifices, Murder, Juan Carlos I, Blackmail, Jordi Pujol, Marc Dutroux).
2026
Mas Arellano, Guillermo. "Snake Eyes: el mecanismo del chivo expiatorio en el asesinato ritual de Charlie Kirk." Video. YouTube (Pura Virtud: Cine y Literatura) 18 Oct. 2025.* (PsyOps; Predictive programming; Agendas; Conspiranoia; Brian de Palma; Deep state, Elites, Magnates, Oligarchies, Secret societies; Palantir, Peter Thiel, Transhumanism; Ritual sacrifice; PsyOps, Control and Propaganda).
https://www.youtube.com/live/DGVUkCBchRc
2025
Schnoebelen, William. "Former 33rd Degree Mason Reveals the Darkest Secrets of Freemasonry." Video interview with William Schnoebelen. YouTube (Almost False) 24 March 2025.* (Satanism, Occultism, Initiation, Organized crime, Cults, Murder, Rape, Pedophilia, Human sacrifice, Souls, Immortality, Conversion, Mormonism).
2025
See also Sati; Aztecs; Satanism.
Human status
García Landa, José Ángel. "Humano, demasiado poco humano." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 7 March 2008.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/030702-humano-demasiado-poco-humano.php
2008
_____. "¿Qué nos hace sujetos humanos?" In García Landa, Vanity Fea 12 March 2008.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/031201--que-nos-hace-sujetos-humanos-.php
2008
_____. "Vida oficial." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 17 March 2008.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/031702-vida-oficial.php
2008
See also Inhuman; Human nature.
Humanitarianism
Fiering, Norman. "Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of 18th-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism." Journal of the History of Ideas 37 (1976): 195-218.
Klingberg, Frank J. "The Evolution of the Humanitarian Spirit in Eighteenth-Century England." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 46 (1942): 260-78.
Ramón Chornet, Consuelo. ¿Violencia necesaria? La intervención humanitaria en Derecho Internacional. Introd. Romualdo Bermejo García. Madrid: Trotta, 1995.
Santamarta del Pozo, Javier. Siempre tuvimos héroes: La impagable aportación de España al humanitarismo.
Humanity (Humane feelings)
Sánchez Ferlosio, Rafael. "La Humanidad y la humanidad." El País 23 Aug. 1982. In Sánchez Ferlosio, Ensayos III: Babel contra Babel - Asuntos internacionales - Sobre la guerra - Apuntes de polemología. Ed. Ignacio Echevarría. Madrid: Penguin Random House - Debate, 2016. 15-18.*
Humanoids
Images
García Landa, José Ángel. "Humanoide en la vegetación." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 July 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/humanoide-en-la-vegetacion.html
2012
See also Apes; Primates; Homo; Androids; Cyborgs.
