The Coming Humanist Renaissance. We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence. By Adrienne LaFrance. Illustration by Jo Imperio. June 5, 2023.

Pico della Mirandola is the unofficial saint of transhumanists because he was pushing human plasticity over the edge. He ...

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Studying the Renaissance is also crucial to understanding contemporary debates centered on post-humanism, trans-humanism, technological humanism, and the various critiques of humanism, all of which ...

“Humanism is personal, ... Her book, at its best, does a splendid job of honoring it, beginning with the poets and scholars who anticipated the Renaissance, such as Petrarch and Boccaccio.

That is certainly in keeping with Dürer’s interests in Renaissance humanism and occultism. But in the Reformation, he perhaps prayed for something equally radical — not a priesthood of all ...

Overall, Denecke, Forte, and Brown demonstrate little interest in the ideological and pedagogical dimensions of either ancient Roman or Renaissance humanism. Theirs is a humanities shaped by the ...