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Christopher S. Celenza is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of History and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. A former Director of the American Academy in Rome, he has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Fulbright Foundation. He is a scholar whose wide interests and expertise span Renaissance thought, classical tradition, and intellectual history. His many books include Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015), The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
'Christopher Celenza's latest book, by his own account, is 'attuned to the porous boundaries between philosophy, literature, and religion, and attentive to the lived dimensions of thought.' That is to say, it is humanist – focused on the human person in a sense that is at once perennial and urgently necessary in the here and now. Its two chapters on Augustine convey the thought of that figure so dear to the new Pope with clarity, vitality, and gusto.' Paul Elie, Georgetown University, author of The Last Supper 'This book will be a new, significant approach for readers to appreciate the philosophical tradition, and more generally intellectual history. There is urgent need for a new approach and Celenza provides one that is learned, accessible, and relevant.' Pamela Long, Independent Scholar 'This book represents a timely contribution to a broad-based and vibrant movement, within academia and beyond, dedicated to defending the humanities' enduring relevance to our contemporary world. It does so both by documenting philosophers' sustained commitment to asking questions about people's day-to-day existence – its meaning, purpose, how to live the good life – and by presenting those thinkers' rich, complex, and interconnected answers in a clear, digestible, and engaging form.' Emily O'Brien, Simon Fraser University
