The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital ‘second life’, genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and ...
Continue Reading →Despite being one of France’s most enduring and popular philosophers, Branches is the first English translation of what has been identified as Michel Serres’ key ...
Continue Reading →In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters is a response to the critique of traditional humanism. In simple, clear language, ...
Continue Reading →The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse composed in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an ...
Continue Reading →This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, ...
Continue Reading →Erwin Panofksy was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century. Panofsky modestly described his second annual Wimmer Lecture at Saint Vincent ...
Continue Reading →The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy offers a balanced and comprehensive account of philosophical thought from the middle of the fourteenth century to ...
Continue Reading →This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century ...
Continue Reading →Focusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to Palladio-this bestselling classic explains the true significance of certain architectural forms, bringing to ...
Continue Reading →The impact of early Italian humanism on the development of Quattrocentro architecture has received much attention in recent years. In these essays, Smith ...
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