FLORENCE, Italy-- Being a tourist in Florentine museums is like a skipping stone above unfathomable depths. Here a Botticelli. There a Donatello. A single room at the Uffizi that would reward a ...

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 ...

Many people today think the definition of a humanist is the same as a humanitarian. They are not entirely wrong. But this conception leaves out at least one major qualification: in the eyes of the ...

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 ...

Long before "alternative facts" made headlines, University of Colorado Boulder English Professor Katherine Eggert was studying late-Renaissance English writers. She focused on their use of alchemical ...

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, ...

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 ...