Peter Carravetta is professor of philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook.
In this lively volume, this adept and interesting philosopher employs a set of key texts in the Italian literary and philosophical tradition as a springboard to thinking about meaningful issues in our own day: What is the place of the humanities? How do we discuss and validate the human as a concept and category? Even when one might come to different conclusions, Peter Carravetta is always worth reading. --Chris Celenza, Johns Hopkins University Is the 21st Century the age when humanism is forced to give way to post- or trans-humanism? Not necessarily, according to Peter Carravetta. This book shows how a series of Italian Renaissance thinkers serve as beacons to guide us through thorny contemporary issues including the nature of responsibility, concepts of society, and the impact of science - and how these thinkers are bound to continue to guide us beyond the 21st century. Carravetta puts humanism, one might say, back in the human. --Robert P. Crease, Stony Brook University In this lively volume, this adept and interesting philosopher employs a set of key texts in the Italian literary and philosophical tradition as a springboard to thinking about meaningful issues in our own day: What is the place of the humanities? How do we discuss and validate the human as a concept and category? Even when one might come to different conclusions, Peter Carravetta is always worth reading. Is the 21st Century the age when humanism is forced to give way to post- or trans-humanism? Not necessarily, according to Peter Carravetta. This book shows how a series of Italian Renaissance thinkers serve as beacons to guide us through thorny contemporary issues including the nature of responsibility, concepts of society, and the impact of science - and how these thinkers are bound to continue to guide us beyond the 21st century. Carravetta puts humanism, one might say, back in the human.