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 ...

Humanism is yet another word that was invented in the 19th century but it derives from a historical group of people in the Renaissance who studied the humanities ...

I have not touched a musical instrument with serious performative intent since around the age of 10, when I took my acceptable rendition of “Popeye the Sailor Man” at the local piano recital as a ...

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 ...

Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the ARC for work on the history of philosophy as a way of life. Asked what was presently vexing him, the bard’s troubled Hamlet replies “words, words, words”. Here ...

Sarah Bakewell was a humanist before she even knew what it meant. In fact, the philosophy known as humanism — with its emphasis on human connection and moral responsibility — can have a variety of ...

The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards. This, like so much of the popular understanding of 15th- and 16th-century Florence, is one of those truisms so often ...

Humanism may seem to be the most legible explanation of the universe and our actions within it, but is the concept still relevant? As a reminder, "Humanism is a hospitality of the heart and spirit to ...