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 ...
On July 13, 1833, during a visit to the Cabinet of Natural History at the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson had an epiphany. Peering at the museum’s specimens—butterflies, hunks of ...
Historical representation in the Spanish humanist context, Juan Luis Vives -- Conjecture and credibility in the Historia general y natural de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés -- ...
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Many years ago, when ...
Humanism was born in Renaissance Italy as an approach to reading Roman literature. It later turned into an Enlightenment philosophy for reorganizing society along rational lines, especially in France.
The invention of science -- A world of wonder -- Emperor and two saints -- The assault on the establishment -- Doctors and picture books -- Inside the animal body -- The animal as machine -- Who sees ...
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