In the last post, I discussed how the sense of agency, an integral element of humanism, seems crucial for leading a meaningful life. The secular world many of us inhabit is a continuation of ...

In the last post, I discussed how the sense of agency, an integral element of humanism, seems crucial for leading a meaningful life. The secular world many of us inhabit is a continuation of ...

[W]hat is at issue here is evaluating the danger of what might happen to our humanity in the present half-century, and distinguishing between what we want to keep and what we are ready to lose, ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t the first to be told that we should replace the word feminism with Humanism; in fact, it’s a relatively common refrain. But as he learned, Humanism already means something ...

This essay studies the relationship between Erich Auerbach's account of the beginnings of literary modernity, in his well-known work on Rabelais, and the Renaissance humanism that informs both his ...

Near the start of her account of humanism, Sarah Bakewell draws an important distinction. Anti-humanists, she writes, despise the material world and seek either to escape it using religion or remake ...

BEIJING — When Han Han, China’s 27-year-old superstar blogger, author and literary bad boy, who loves to drive racing cars and thumb his nose at the establishment, announced the title of his hotly ...

Well-known for his Ciceronianism as well as for his crass nominalism and virulent attack on universals, the humanist Mario Nizolio (1488–1567) is often considered to be a forerunner of early modern ...

Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence you can sleep in a converted 16th-century monastery that's just a block from ...

This program is no longer accepting new student applications. The Renaissance studies immersion is an interdisciplinary set of courses focused on the study of cultural events (artistic, literary, ...