Criticism

Serena Baldini & David Marini / Criticism
Counseling e il nuovo status del docente: Esperienze nell’insegnamento dell’italiano in classi monolingui anglofone
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Gabriela Dragnea Horvath / Criticism
Book Review: Dying for Ideas, The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, Bloomsbury, 2015
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Paolo Rossi / Criticism
On Pain at the End of Time
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Gabriela Dragnea Horvath / Criticism
Thinking with Flowers
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D.S. Butterworth / Criticism
Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna
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Stefano Adamo / Criticism
When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy
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Riccardo Donati / Criticism
Chronicles of the Regime. Fascist Sexual Psychology after Fascism: literary echoes
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Sergio Givone / Criticism
The Metaphysics of the Plague – Guilt and Destiny
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Erik Schmidt & Michael Pringle / Criticism
Re-Thinking Education: Philosophy and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Ethics and Shakespeare
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Gabriela Dragnea Horvath / Criticism
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance
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Cultural Visibility of the Pink Triangle: Examining Gay Germany through a Global Leadership Lens

Criticism
Marnie Rorholm

Issue 7 (Winter 2018)

Introduction and Purpose Statement A seeming paradox exists in Germany regarding acknowledging homosexuality past and present. At this moment in history (Autumn 2017), Germany’s government is grappling with the legal issues associated with instituting the …

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Demystifying the War on Terror

Criticism
Maryam El-Shall

Issue 7 (Winter 2018)

Only under conditions in which [a] loss would matter does the value of life appear.—Judith Butler, Frames of War “Americans! They kill people for no reason! Now of course, the US government gives all …

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Awareness, Knowledge and Skills: strategies for the development of intercultural communicative competence

Criticism
Laura Tarabusi

Issue 7 (Winter 2018)

1. Introduction The ability to communicate, in one’s own L1 or in L2 or with a lingua franca with people of different cultures, is more and more essential and required for work and in social …

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When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy

Criticism
Stefano Adamo

Issue 7 (Winter 2018)

Populism is one of the most widespread buzzwords in today’s political discourse. Commentators have used it to refer to the Brexit campaign as well as to the vociferous anti-establishment parties and movements recently risen …

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Deadline for the forthcoming issue: April 30.

The recent authoritarian turn in global politics—from Brazil to the United States and from Turkey to the Philippines– has caused great consternation in the humanities and social sciences. Coupled with the resurgence of old and new racisms and an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, this shift has prompted scholars to rethink previously held assumptions about democracy in the twenty-first- century. Probing its underlying causes, scholars across disciplines are calling into question the intellectual foundations of modern democracy—foundations rooted in renaissance humanism and enlightenment political thought. To quote one observer, is the age of humanism over?

In other words, has the rational subject of renaissance humanism and enlightenment modernity given way to a new subject defined by unbridled market values and commodified human relations? Or rather, does the current proliferation of authoritarian and neoliberal state actors merely signal the dark underside of the philosophical discourse of modernity as others have previously suggested? Similarly, are we witnessing the birth pangs of a new world order characterized by overt forms of domination? Alternately, how can a renewed and critical understanding of the humanist and enlightenment philosophical traditions serve to confront the virulent forms of violence and exclusion that characterize the shifting geopolitical landscape? In short, what are the philosophical and literary resources available to artists and intellectuals seeking to grapple with the erosion of democratic norms in contemporary modes of governance?

Voyages: Journal of Contemporary Humanism seeks to become a forum for debate on these questions, asking whether this pessimism is justified, where its sources and logic stem from, and most importantly, how humanism, past and present, can serve as a vehicle for resolving the problems facing the world today.

ISSN 2283-6578

Criticism

Counseling e il nuovo status del docente: Esperienze nell’insegnamento dell’italiano in classi monolingui anglofone

Book Review: Dying for Ideas, The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, Bloomsbury, 2015

On Pain at the End of Time

Thinking with Flowers

Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna

When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy

Chronicles of the Regime. Fascist Sexual Psychology after Fascism: literary echoes

The Metaphysics of the Plague – Guilt and Destiny

Re-Thinking Education: Philosophy and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Ethics and Shakespeare

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Cultural Visibility of the Pink Triangle: Examining Gay Germany through a Global Leadership Lens

Criticism
Marnie Rorholm

Demystifying the War on Terror

Criticism
Maryam El-Shall

Awareness, Knowledge and Skills: strategies for the development of intercultural communicative competence

Criticism
Laura Tarabusi

When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy

Criticism
Stefano Adamo

Voyages: The Journal of Contemporary Humanism ( ISSN 2283-6578)

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